How to improvise on the major scale - Guitar lesson using the C major scale

[@guitar-academy]

+Kevin Fernandez The 'G' major scale is played in the 3rd Fret The 'C' major scale is played in the 8th Fret

[@pavelooo2289]

I have watched so many videos but this is what I was looking for all my life as a guitarist. Thank you so so much

[@guitar-academy]

Happy to help! thank you 😃

[@AnggonoHanggi]

*note : you don't have to be fast while improvising

[@OneRadicalDreamer]

This is the most straightforward video I've seen, I'll gladly watch your ads.

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you . . It's a shame about the ads, but that's how the videos are paid for . . 🙂

[@Add_Account485]

@@guitar-academy SORRY. WHY DOESN'T THE "ALTERNATIVE " C SCALE USE THE HIGH E STRING? .

[@guitar-academy]

@@Add_Account485 You play all the same notes but on different strings. The notes from the top 'E' string are played on the 'B' string instead 😊

[@Add_Account485]

@@guitar-academy Hu? Sorry I'm a bit slow. But if i copy the 1st pattern of the 3 notes per string. Is that the same thing? ( If so then I can add the high E string in it . Is that right?

[@salantino]

Where were you all these years? A HUGE PENNY has just dropped in front of me. Thank you so much

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you very much for watching . . 🙂

[@Esther-hr3tq]

O Man how can you teach so perfectly?! … I love the way you teach … God bless you 😍

[@guitar-academy]

Wow, thank you! I think you must just click with the style of teaching 😊😀

[@Ro9eR]

Thank you so much for all your help. Yours are the best lessons ive found.

[@guitar-academy]

You're very welcome! thank you again 🙂🙂

[@SaikatMahfuj]

So helpful! Not like others who tried to teach but made complex.

[@guitar-academy]

Glad it was helpful! thank you 😊😊

[@sameenakausar1020]

Awesome lessons ! I had watched many video's but your's is so systematic. I really appreciate the brilliant idea of posting the backing track for us to practice improvisation. Thanks a lot for all these videos! They are very helpful for us to learn.

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you very much . . . 😊

[@nickpapapastathopoulos6929]

Thank you so much for your help! An amazing way of teaching guitar! Everything is crystal clear and it feels so good! Please continue of what you are doing, it not only gives happiness and joy but it promises that someday I may play guitar in a proper way. Hope is a great feeling.

[@guitar-academy]

wow . . what an encouraging and uplifting comment . . . thank you 😊😃

[@bustedandblu_]

This is my one of my favorite scales to play. Thank you!!!

[@guitar-academy]

:-)

[@Anjaan_Ajab]

This is exactly what i needed, Cheers from India!

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you . . 🙂

[@martinwebtrainer2033]

You have just made magic to me , so nicely

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you :-)

[@75pritp]

Really nice and very useful to those who thinks their guitar learning is at monotonous stage..

[@guitar-academy]

+Pritpal Singh ahhh . . . yuck, we all go through thous stages. :-)

[@azammh9274]

Finalllyyyy, thank you Sir!! I watch so many vid before but still not understand, this vid help me a lot, tq Sir!

[@guitar-academy]

Glad it helped! thank you 🙂

[@mwineafrod]

Excellent ... Thank you!

[@guitar-academy]

thank you . . . 😊

[@AbcAbc-yu2fv]

thank you master teacher

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you too . . . 😊😃

[@emil6669]

Very helpful and fun. Thank you for this video!

[@guitar-academy]

Glad it was helpful! thank you 😊

[@Ian-tk3rq]

Very helpful thank you 👍 worth submitting to

[@guitar-academy]

glad you found it helpful! thank you 😊😃

[@deltafour1212]

This channel is a godsend!

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you very much 😊😃

[@lueezec3668]

Oh cool, I get to use backing tracks. It makes it more interesting. Thanks for your help.

[@guitar-academy]

+Lueeze C :-)

[@ricketyrawd]

okay. I am hooked. but I used your advice on the harmonica, good stuff!!

[@guitar-academy]

oh wow . . way to go . .

[@Helltothenaww]

2nd video ive seen and i can tell ill be learning alot

[@guitar-academy]

That's great . . . thank you 😊😀

[@guitar-academy]

Thanks for watching it . .

[@jfpbman]

this was very usefull, thank you!

[@guitar-academy]

thank you :-)

[@guitar-academy]

Thanks

[@tulusmabasanasimaremare5627]

Very good explanation

[@guitar-academy]

thank you very much . . 😊

[@andreinagy416]

Thank you!

[@tonybeach4725]

thanks for the lesson.. sounds great learned lots.

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you :-)

[@sairavi29]

Thanks a lot..its so helpful

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you :-)

[@MrAloy300]

Omg, thanks a lot man! Cos i was having doubts abt using tis scales (im new to tis;)) but woth ur explanations n demos it really help me up! Best online tutorial so far :D

[@guitar-academy]

Thanks :-)

[@arathsg9824]

Got the scales in 2 hours!!! Nonstop now me fingers have blisters

[@guitar-academy]

+arath guijarro once your fingers have recovered the next step is to try and make it perfect . . Unless you've already done that.

[@arathsg9824]

Yep first hour was getting it right 10 times in row then the sons hour was trying to do the thing you did just not exactly the same

[@arathsg9824]

Second*

[@adham587]

Just fantastic

[@guitar-academy]

😊✨✨

[@tulusmabasanasimaremare5627]

Nice, please keep doing a video lesson

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you, I will 😊😊

[@LegendSoul1]

Yeah nice one.

[@ordertheeggdropsoup]

Awesome! Super helpful! Thanks for this!

[@ritesh25arch]

thank you...!!!

[@guitar-academy]

no . . . thank you for watching . .

[@nsh6684]

wow thank u very much

[@guitar-academy]

+Nuhr Candy :-)

[@nsh6684]

+GCH Guitar Academy honestly thank u.. i need to ask u do u have any other video for other scales like G or C minor?

[@RobBob555]

Massivly helpfull. Many thanks :)

[@guitar-academy]

Thanks for the positive comment . . . :)

[@Jy-168]

Awesome teacher ^^

[@guitar-academy]

thanks :)

[@roberthigham7499]

brilliant

[@guitar-academy]

+Robert Higham thanks . . . :-)

[@siukarloaf]

Nice tutorial

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you! 🙂🙂

[@shoumeekbose4662]

awsm

[@nataliejohnson7873]

good lesson

[@guitar-academy]

Thanks . .

[@thecastle09]

Great stuff

[@guitar-academy]

:-)

[@loveguitars]

Excellent

[@downhill240]

Very good lesson!

[@samkzz9148]

This is great...😊

[@guitar-academy]

Thank you . . . 😊

[@GauraVaidya]

Best 1

[@sylvesterdunggat2326]

tq very much

[@AmreshOfficial]

sir where can i get the backing track can u please give me some links... thanks

[@jadeharley0413]

The intro is so sick but scared the shit out of me lmao

[@guitar-academy]

Yeah . . in newer videos I've lowered the volume by half . . 😃

[@guitar-academy]

It's a good starting point, but the second octave isn't hard to learn.

[@gggeeh]

what if I only learn one octave of the scale? is it bad?

[@alanharper6673]

This first improvised example you did sounded kinda like Santana

[@guitar-academy]

Now that's a real complement there . . . thank you

[@danaeverhart6487]

Is this Simone Kowl'z voice

[@wretch1]

The only takeaway from this video: "Try to make it sound good if you can" 🤣

[@Add_Account485]

The 2nd choice looks like the 3 notes per string one but how come no dots on high E string? Does it change if U do it in key of C as opposed to key of g?

[@guitar-academy]

The shape remains the same for the different key signatures but where you start the scale changes. As you can see 'G' starts on the 3rd fret where as 'C' starts on the 8th fret.

[@Add_Account485]

@@guitar-academy yeah but I still don't understand why you didn't put the high string dots in?.. Is that just preference?

[@guitar-academy]

@@Add_Account485 NO, for the 2nd pattern you don't use the top 'E' string, just play as it is. To be a major scale it starts and finishes on the tonic which is this case is 'G'

[@Add_Account485]

@@guitar-academy oh ok. Thankyou

[@guitar-academy]

@@Add_Account485 😊

[@pjgonzales2106]

this helps alot!! sub :D

[@svt1649]

what is the title of the music you play on the background while playing your guitar?

[@guitar-academy]

The backing is just something I threw together for the video, but it is in the video linked below with couple of others. kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5W9k4GfrZmhgK8

[@svt1649]

thank you.. sorry to bother you.. you are the best teacher so far i've encountered online

[@mrcntno_]

excuse me, i just wanna know the play along song? please i really need it to practice

[@guitar-academy]

The backing tracks are here kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5W9k4GfrZmhgK8

[@mrcntno_]

GCH Guitar Academy thank you so much! very helpful!

[@mrcntno_]

GCH Guitar Academy thank you so much! very helpful!

[@dave101t]

chris eccleston teaches us guitar!

[@guitar-academy]

😀

[@samuelokpe6673]

pls what backing track did you use for this

[@guitar-academy]

The backing track is here kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5W9k4GfrZmhgK8 they are all written especially for GCH Guitar Academy by Sad Fantasy

[@rajbirthapa5336]

Sir please tell me something in every scale's we have so many pattern but they are all neccessry for learning???

[@guitar-academy]

No, not really, but it depends on how far you want to go with you learning and what you want to do. The blues scale and the major and minor are very useful. 🙂

[@rajbirthapa5336]

@@guitar-academy thank you and that means every patterns are importent for make me a perfect guitarist?

[@guitar-academy]

@@rajbirthapa5336 just take your time and learn them over a year or more . . 😀

[@rajbirthapa5336]

@@guitar-academy thank you soo much..!! For your hopefull advice.

[@Steve-ps4bk]

Stupid question:Wich are the chords can used in backing track for a c major scale?

[@guitar-academy]

Common chords are C, Am, F, G and not so common Dm and Em are also used 😊

[@Steve-ps4bk]

@@guitar-academy thank you, much clearer now.

[@guitar-academy]

@@Steve-ps4bk no problem

[@michaelzidek3223]

Does anybody know any other videos that explain step four?

[@josenunez8314]

no

[@myromance1390]

Uwhere i can get the bạcking track?

[@guitar-academy]

I have put several backings up for this exercise at kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5W9k4GfrZmhgK8

[@zamri7337]

can u upload for A code ?

[@jakoviharris5060]

Umm what frat were you on

[@redaspack]

Don't forget the root note of each scale

[@guitar-academy]

At this stage of learning that's not important, that's in the next step.

[@Add_Account485]

This says " improvisation 2".. is there a part " 1 "? .. And could you direct me to it?. Sorry to disturb

[@guitar-academy]

no trouble. Here's a play list with all my major scale videos in. I need to make some updated ones soon. kzbin.info/aero/PLIQJcXCYbgO2zM8BE7PdQ7Yw-OBe8t94W

[@Add_Account485]

@@guitar-academy oh thankyou sir!!!!! Was just practicing all this with the metronome for the last hour. So nice and warmed up... HAAA. I appreciate it SOOOOO MUCH!... ARE U in Australia... U seem to be online at good times

[@Add_Account485]

@@guitar-academy JUST watched this again. Just wanted to say thank you very much again for sharing!. Great video. Greatly explained. Very helpful.. And mucho múcho appriciation.. 😜

[@guitar-academy]

@@Add_Account485 Thank you so much . . No I'm not anywhere so warm, I'm in North Wales, UK 😊😃

[@Dannyqk6196]

L

[@itachiuchiha1375]

does this mean your on drop D

[@phil1065]

why does no one ever mention the importance of learning the correlating arpeggio? This is more important than memorizing the scale itself, as it provides melody and musical quality to the notes (any) that are played. The key is to play around the arpeggio.

[@guitar-academy]

The reason nobody mentions the importance of the arpeggio is because the guitarist gains for more from playing around with the scales as that is where both the melody and the harmony. The arpeggios are the domain of the bassist so if the guitar starts playing just arpeggios as well as the bassist the music would be very boring. Also, the arpeggios come from the scales and not the other way around . . . Don't get me wrong however, it is useful to learn the arpeggio, but after you have learned the scales.

[@GurpreetSingh-ct6kb]

From lesson 2 onwards no work on right hand , dat is what we need to knw

[@guitar-academy]

You aren't in the same course . .

[@mauronunes7196]

So this is David504 oldest video?

[@lhoigica1131]

Its a G major scales..

[@guitar-academy]

no no no . . the 'G' major scale starts on the third fret (the 'G' note). This is what it says it is the 'C' major scale . .

[@danaeverhart6487]

Lmao

[@MrKevincito]

I thought this was the g major scale

[@miaerobles]

Thank u so much