Re: Chord Design - Getting Started

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...Major scale. The distance between each of those notes is -

C [C#] D [D#] E F [F#] G [G#] A [A#] B (C)

Whole Whole Half Whole Whole Whole Half

OK so far?
If you started on ANY fret on ANY string and
played EACH fret, you'd have a CHROMATIC scale.
If you started on ANY fret on ANY string and played
ROOT Whole Whole half Whole Whole Whole half or
2 frets 2 frets 1 frets 2 frets 2 frets 2 frets 1 frets or
tone tone semitone tone tone tone semitone
You'd have a Major scale or a Diatonic scale or a "Do Re Mi".


Sean B:
Now this may be a silly question, but if every note is just one up
from the previous one, and for two you move up 2 frets, why do you
only move up 1 fret to get to the next higher note and then back to 2
frets again?

"Just one up" is not any kind of musical terminology.
One what? Scales are made up of half steps and whole steps.
Some of the intervals are whole steps, some are half steps.

Here's the D Major scale. Again the notes in brackets
are the notes you SKIP.

D [D#] E [F] F# G [G#] A [A]# B [C] C# (D)
ROOT Whole Whole Half Whole Whole Whole Half

Here's the F Major scale.

F [Gb] G [Ab] A Bb [B] C [Db] D [Eb] E (F)
Root Whole Whole Half Whole Whole Whole Half

"Why" you move some times a whole step and some times
a half step is because that's how the scale is spelled.
It's like asking "Why do you spell the furry, 4 legged
animal D-O-G".

If you started on ANY fret on ANY string and played
ROOT Whole Whole half Whole Whole Whole half

If you started on ANY fret on ANY string and played
ROOT Whole Whole half Whole Whole Whole half

If you started on ANY fret on ANY string and played
ROOT Whole Whole half Whole Whole Whole half


DO THAT on your guitar!
Start on ANY fret on ANY string and play
ROOT Whole Whole half Whole Whole Whole half

You have to DO this stuff to see how intuitive it is.
Do that and LISTEN to the sound. You'll hear the Do Re Mi.


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