In this video, I'm going to show you how to play the major scale for position number one. Let's take a look. Okay, this is how you're going to play a major scale position one way, the first thing you have to do is you're going to locate the A on your sixth string, fifth fret. I could have chosen any one of the 12 major scales I could have chosen F, F sharp, G, G sharp, C, D, I just, you know, I chose to start with a kind of, it's right in the middle, a neck, kind of a nice place to play a major scale because of the fret with Alright, so we're gonna start here on a and it's going to go 1-234-567-1234 5671 then I like to go up to two since you can get this this To hear this be, I like to up to two.
No, go back to 1-765-432-1765 4321 then I'd like to get down to seven. And then I always like to come back to one I like to start on one and end on one. I just think it helps with your ear training. Right? So let's go ahead and get through that one more time. We're gonna start here on ango 1-234-567-1234 567122 1-765-432-1765 For three to one, seven, and then back to one and that is an A major scale first position.
Okay, this is how you're going to play a D major scale position one. We're going to start here by finding D on the sixth string 10th fret, and it's going to go 1-234-567-1234 5671 we can get to up here to 1-765-432-1765 432171. Now I'm picking all these notes down. But I would suggest when you're practicing your scales, I would suggest as soon as possible to start alternate picking. And what that means is you're going to pick down and then the next note in the scale you pick up and down, up, down, up. The more you alternate pick, the more proficient, more proficient you're picking is going to be and you'll find that you're able to pick different passages a lot easier to because of your ability to alternate pick.
Alright, so now I'm going to go to that one more time. We're gonna start here with D. We're going to go 1-234-567-1234 56712 217-654-3217 65432171 and that is how you play D major scale position number one. Okay, and for your third major scale position one that I'm going to show you, I decided to use F sharp right here. So it is on the sixth string second fret, that's where F sharp is, and it's going to look like this 1-234-567-1234 5671 I want to come back to 1-765-432-1765 432171 guy one more time. 1-234-567-1234 567122 1-765-432-1765 432171 and the reason I'm playing each of these slowly and twice as I hope you're you're going to play along with me as I've lady said to me playing through them really fast. I'm going through them slowly, so you can play along and just imitate what you see here.
Also, make sure you either look at the PDFs or print out the resource material. So you can see exactly, you know, the patterns that for the major scales, and that was how you play F sharp major position one and that's how you play the major scale position number one