Next, we're going to learn how to play the C major scale on the first three frets of your fretboard. And remember that you can download the PDF of the scale pattern in this section of the course. The first thing that you want to be sure of when you playing through the C major scale is that you stay in position. By that I mean that you want to have your first finger playing all the notes that fall on your first fret, your second finger playing all the notes that fall on your second fret, your third finger playing all the notes that fall on your third fret, and your fourth finger playing all the notes that fall on your fourth fret. Next, you want to learn how the C major scale looks on your guitar. Now when we're playing through the C major scale, we want to start on the lowest C note on the first four frets, which happens to be the note that we play as middle C on this note is called the tonic note of the scale and it's the most important note in the scale.

Now we're just going to play through the natural notes located on the first three frets. Starting from the notes C. As you'll see the open string notes are going to be an important part of playing the scale. We play the note C on the A string, third fret in the open D string, which is the no D, E on the D string second fret on the D string third fret next we play the open G string, which is the no G note a on the G string second fret we play the open B string, which is the no B. And lastly, we end the scale on the note C on the B strings first fret from the starting node. Then we reverse the steps and come back to the starting notes. fits perfectly into the C major.

Now when we play from the low C to the high C we say that the scale is ascending since the notes are getting higher in pitch. On the other hand when we come back from the high C to the low C, we say that the scale is descending since the notes are getting lower pitched. This is how the C major scale ascending and descending looks on the stave. Once you have the scale pattern on your fingers, we can extend it a little to open up more possibilities. Start on the same node c again and play through the scale to the node C on the B string. Now, we're going to extend past the node c to the note G, since it's good to include the highest note possible in the scale shape from C replay D on the B string Third, we play the open A string, which is the note F on the strings.

And lastly, we played G on the E string. Then we simply do everything in reverse until we arrived back at our starting node. So far, this is what our C major scale looks like on the stave. We played from middle C on the A string third fret to C, an octave above that on the B strings first fret. Then we extend the scale even higher to the note G found on the E string third fret, where we then retrace our steps back to our original starting point at middle C. When we get back to the starting point, you want to extend the scale past the tonic node C, and keep going till you get to the lowest note possible in this position, which in this case is the open A string So we play the note B on a string second than the open string which is the note in the G on the E string, third fret.

Next we play the note F on the E string, first fret. And lastly the E open, which is the note. Now, we don't end here because he is not our tonic note series, so we simply walk back through the notes until we arrive back to middle C. Here's how the whole C major scale looks and sounds from start to finish. In addition to practicing the scale pattern, you really want to say the notes as you go so that you internalize the positions on your fretboard. Hey