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Arpeggios from major scales – Part 2: Harmonized Scale

Arpeggios from major scales – Part 2: Harmonized Scale

By on 2011-11-11

The harmonized scale, like the circle of fifths, is a wonderful, amazing and somewhat mysterious musical construct. If you don’t know or remember the harmonized scale let me review before I move on to how to use it for arpeggios. What is the harmonized scale? The harmonized scale can be expressed as the chords which [...]

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Arpeggios from major scales - Part 1

Arpeggios from major scales – Part 1

By on 2011-11-06

I reviewed how to play major scales on the guitar in my last post. You’ve learned those scales right? I’m still working on them – and I have been for years. I know them, but I can always improve. But as I said last time, scales may be useful, but are by themselves are boring. [...]

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Major Scale Positions for Guitar

Major Scale Positions for Guitar

By on 2011-10-18

There are many ways to play any scale on the guitar. You can learn the positions of each note of a scale on a single string. You can learn scales that play three notes per string then move to the next higher (or lower) string. However, many guitarists look for efficiency of movement. The best known [...]

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