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Now we are going to take a look at our C major scale as it is written on the actual staff.
So if you zoom in here we have our bass clef. Now notice we have five lines. So these note
lines don't represent the strings any more these just represent notes in the scale. If
we start right here notice there's no sharps or flats that how you know it's in C. C is
this middle space right here. Every line and space is a different interval in the scale.
So we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. So if we play that one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, one. It's going up. Then I wrote that below here. Then above I
wrote the fret markings three, O, two, three, O, two, four, five. So you go through and
you can read the fret markings as well three, O, two, three, O, two, four, five. That's
your basic scale as it's written. Now say you're going to put a flat in front of the
two. You'd just use the note right below it. So here a two's an open string so you'd use
the note right above C instead. Then we'd have one, flat two, three, four, one, flat
two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. Or if we flatted say the seven or the six we'd
have one, two, three, four, five, flat six, seven, one, one, seven, flat six, five, four,
three, two, one. That's your major scale go through and really get that pattern down.
Just remember when you are reading through on your own if you have a flat or sharp you
just use the next fret below or above it as you go through and play your C major scale.