Unlocking The Fretboard: F-Major From Music Theory To Playing

Playing guitar reading traditional  notation is not that easy, as you  know. So many of you prefer to play from  tablature. But you can read traditional notation as if it was a tablature. You  just have to know some things about it. Let's begin with the c major scale: I  already did a video on that how to put the C major scale from scratch to  the fretboard. The C major scale is this: apparently all the notes have the same  distance one from another, and we have seven notes CDEFGAB and C. That's

okay, that's fine.  You see here there is no 8 under the Cleff. here it is and this actually is guitar notation. So you would see the C major scale that sounds in this this way as a guitarist you would see it in that way. Now putting this to the guitar what we have to know is the actual structure of our tone  system, and for this I have the tone clock. This is  simply put the 12 note that we have on a clock face. From that clock face we extract the notes we need for the C major scale, which you

see here: and if you put then the notes in this line you nearly see how it will be on the fretboard: from there we go to put all the single notes to the fretboard on one string and so we obtain the scale on one single string. Doing this on the guitar you have in your hands the structure of the C major scale and all the other scales that use only notes without accidentals. You see E - F and B - C which are just one half step apart. All the others are whole steps; and if I write that simply with

numbers you see the half step in position 3 - 4 and 7 - 8. what is very nice if we now divide these eight notes we have two so-called Tetra-Chords which four notes, and the half steps are always on the last two notes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Okay, that was the thing we did for C major.  Now if I would like to play another scale I just transfer this fingering and the structure of the  notes to another string and I obtain a new scale. Here I did that on the first E string: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The Question is:

what notes actually do I play? so I have to discover what note is this. So I have  the root. I am on the E string and play in the first fret: so my note is F. What I'm going to play and what I'm already playing not knowing actually what notes I play just by using the stretcher of our hands is the F major scale on the first  string alone. Now what you see here are all the notes of the tone clock put on the first string. We have f g a b c d e and f. Here are the half steps and this is all the sca

le but if we now compare this to this F major scale we already  played you see that in this point there is a difference because the structure is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 with the half steps 3-4 7-8 but actually our half steps are E -F and B - C, and the B is in the wrong place listen: to how the scales actually sounds: Obviously the scale exists but  it's not F major but F lydian what you actually see is that the B is right in the  place where the two Tetra-Chords should be  divided. Observing that on th

e clock face you  see that the B is just the note on the other end, 6 hours away so to say; and this is a  very odd note because the sound and the intervals coming out is Tritone and  the Tritone is quite dissonant. F B or B F That's very much death metal isn't it? When you observe carefully my tone clock what you see is that I put in where the B is the natural  sign and where the B flat is the flat sign. They are in use for a lot of time and I will show you this in a book by Adam Gumpelzhaimer

which is a music theory book from Augsburg in Germany, Bavaria, from 1591. Here we have this image which is the Gamut. An image that shows all the notes and all the tones that were in use in that period. let's have a closer look on this. Here you see the notes  with the letter names. The lowest one is gamma that's why it called the gamut that would be G; then a b c d e this is the hexa-chord on G, which is the G Major scale without the seventh  grade and we have the B written as a capital B, an

d on the side you see the natural sign: this is the sign for the B Quadro, the square B so to say which differs just from a B - with angles, actually - by this little stem that we have under the right side of the letter. Up here you see the hexa-chord on F, which is f g a b c d and this B is what we now call the B flat; but actually it was the round B, B rotondum, also called B molle, which means soft, the soft B, meanwhile this B has been the  B-square, the b quadratum or B hard, B durum. So we

had actually two different names for B: B-Molle, which is this, and B-Duro heart B which is this. Also said rundum and quadratum, so round and squared. In our F major scale we actually use the B-Molle, the round one. So this was the problem and this is the solution. Okay now we put that b in our scale and our semi-tones are okay. This becomes  the key signature in the moment that I put down the B and write it right after the cleff. In this case the B is valid for all the notes that belong to F

major: in F major you will always need B flat if you have a piece in F major and there's no B flat there's happening something harmonically in the piece. You already studied the F major scale on the guitar and you have the fingering  in your hands and when we apply the fingering to the scale what we have here, which is very full and very rich with fingerings, we have notation as near as possible to tablature, because you have the string, you have the position, you have the finger everything, you

need so this is as close as it can get to tablature. this is how the scale would be written in 10th position on  three strings: the same fingering that we had in C major. (Watch that other video!). And this is the position in a tablature. This is extremely full with information to the fingering but  actually if you know your fingering in the hands and you have the structure in your hand this is the information you need: position and eventually the string. If you now go through the scale just ap

ply the fingering you already have in your hand and listen to the music  that you play: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The half steps are here, the rest are whole steps. Change the strings when your fingers are finished and you're done. That's it thank you very much for  watching if you have any questions leave that in the comments, if you like  the video give me a thumb up and subscribe to the channel. You will find  the PDFs as usual on my Dropbox if you subscribe to the newsletter so consider  that. Thank y

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