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Whole tone & Half tone
When you start studying music, you will definitely see the word “scale”
You might have heard of the words like “Lydian scale”, “Dorian Scale”, and “Aeolian scale”.
These scales are built based on certain rules.
Of course, the “C major scale” described in the first chapter is also built based on a certain rule.
Let’s study this with the fifth string only.
C Major Scale (C Ionian Scale)
When you move one fret on a guitar, the pitch moves half tone, and when you move two frets on the guitar, the pitch moves whole tone.
Now, let’s study this with the fourth string only.
Play the same pattern as in the case of the fifth string from the third fret of the fourth string and you will get F major scale.
F Major Scale (F Ionian Scale)
When you play this from the third fret of the first string, you will get “G major scale”.
As described above, when you play “Whole, Whole, Half, Whole, Whole, Whole, Half” pattern, you always get a major scale of some key.
Of course, each of the other scales is also built on a certain pattern.
This is very important!
