Pretty nifty, huh? G Major Scale: Position #1Īssign your four fingers to fret the notes that fall between the 9th and 12th frets. If we do that for each of the five positions we learned, we have completely learned how to play a G major scale in all positions across the ukulele fretboard! This means all we need to do is take our C major scale positions that we learned in the last lesson and raise all the F notes up a half step to F#. Which single note is found in the G major scale that isn’t found in the C major scale? Now, let’s list the notes in a C major scale: The cool thing is that you pretty much already know how to play a G major scale. Again, by now, you should be pretty comfortable and familiar with the C major scale. To do this, we are going to refer to the C major scale we learned in the last lesson. We want to be able to play a G major scale in five different positions across the ukulele fretboard. Now that we know how to build a G major scale, let’s learn some more practical ways to play this scale across the ukulele fretboard. Again, if this discussion about whole steps and half steps doesn’t make sense to you, go to the previous lesson to review. The blue dots represent the tonic note of the scale (G). We will use an example of the piano keys to help us visualize the scale. Let’s start on a G note and apply this interval pattern. We remember that a major scale interval pattern is whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half. In the last lesson, we learned that we can build a major scale from any note by applying a whole step, half step interval pattern. First, we will look at the theory behind the scale, or how to build the scale, and then, we will look how to play the scale across the ukulele fretboard. If you don’t have a solid understanding of that lesson, this lesson probably won’t make much sense to you.įrom here on out, I will be structuring each of these major scale lessons very similarly. So again, if you haven’t learned the C major scale, go here before reading on. All of the lessons from here on out will be building off of our understanding of a C major scale. Learning the C major scale is a critical starting point. By now, you should be able to comfortably play a C major scale in all positions across the ukulele fretboard. In the first lesson, we looked at how to play a C major scale on the ukulele. We’re doing this by learning all major scales in the twelve different keys. Right now, we are in a big lesson series dedicated to learning the ukulele fretboard.
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