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C-Major Scale First Position

If you do not know the C major scale on the guitar, or which scale tones overlap with chord tones in the C major chord, then you better take a look at this lesson.
The C major scale, which contains the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B and C. Notated it looks like [...]

Pentatonic Scale

The pentatonic scale is the most important scale to know. Fortunately, its easy to learn. It has only five different notes and the fingering is usually a nice simple shape on the fingerboard. The following TABs show the G pentatonic scale.

Here is the ascending scale in TAB

————————————–3—6–
——————————-3—6———
————————3—5—————-
—————-3—5————————
———3—5——————————-
-3—6—————————————

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