The C Major Scale

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 this:

You should learn to play this on your guitar. Here is a simple fingering in TAB notation:

Descending it looks like this:

Here is the ascending scale w/ letter names for notes instead of fret numbers:

To help remember the fingering, you should learn the C major chord. The 4 notes from the chord coincide with 4 of the notes from the scale. If you think you're going to get by without knowing the information on this page, you are sadly mistaken!

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