The Whole Tone Scale

Saturday, September 10, 2011


You are going to love this, this is really handy. All the scales are made up of notes which have intervals between them. A semitone is a fret, a tone is 2 frets. So to play a major scale on any single string it goes like this:


 
Use this knowledge when playing right hand fingertapping.
If you make a scale where each interval is a tone (2 frets) like this:











then that scale will go with any key and you can use it in any key without sounding off. What denotes the key the scale is in is the starting note, so if the first note is C then the scale is C. If the first note is B then the scale is B.




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