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I'd like to talk to you about the major scale now. The major scale has seven notes. All
major scales have seven notes, and we usually number them from one to seven. If you think
of the eighth note, you get the repeated note you started with, but an octave higher.
So let me explain. I'll start with a very simple major scale. Let's start with a key
of C, and I am going to play it one octave. So C, D, E, F,G, A, B, and then a repeated
root note at the top, C. Every one knows this sound. An case you don't really actually understand
what a major scale is, everyone knows do, re, me, fa, so, la, te, do. That's what a
major scale is. Do, re, me, fa, so, la, te, do. You get to hear me singing too. So that,
essentially, is a major scale.
Now, let's expand the range of the major scale. Instead of just playing it from our fifth
string to our second string, let's learn how to play it on all six strings. So I'm going
to start on C, it's a good place to start, but I'm going to go past this other C on my
second string, and I'll wind up here on a G. [playing guitar] When I get to that point,
I'm going to come back down, [playing guitar] and I'm going to go past my C, keep going
all the way to my open E, climb back up, and land on the C. And then I'll do it one more
time. [playing guitar] There is the C major scale.