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Guitar Scales

Why Guitar Scales?

Scales are a fundamental part of music and it is very important to learn them. Learning guitar scales will help you in various ways, including but not limited to:

 

Practicing Scales

As mentioned previously guitar scales should be practiced as often as possible. It would be ideal to play scales as a warmup before you start playing properly. If you want to do some speed training you could use a metronome. Set it to a slow tempo to begin with and play the scale along to it. Once you have mastered it at that tempo you can start to increase the tempo a little bit at a time, for example by 5bpm. This systematic approach will ensure that you don't pick up any bad habits.

 

Free Guitar Scales

Shown below are various guitar scales - click on them to find the guitar scale you want. Please note that the red notes represent the root note of the scale.

Major

The major scale is made up of seven distinct notes, plus an eighth which duplicates the first an octave higher, and is classified as a diatonic scale.
B Major Scale C Major Scale C Sharp Major Scale
A Sharp Major Scale D Major Scale
A Major Scale D Sharp Major Scale
G Sharp Major Scale E Major Scale
G Major Scale F Sharp Major Scale F Major Scale

Major Pentatonic

This is one of the most common anhemitonic pentatonic scales, which can be constructed in a number of different ways.
B Major Pentatonic Scale C Major Pentatonic Scale C Sharp Major Pentatonic Scale
A Sharp Major Pentatonic Scale D Major Pentatonic Scale
A Major Pentatonic Scale D Sharp Major Pentatonic Scale
G Sharp Major Pentatonic Scale E Major Pentatonic Scale
G Major Pentatonic Scale F Sharp Major Pentatonic Scale F Major Pentatonic Scale

Minor

A minor scale in musical theory is a diatonic scale whose third scale degree is an interval of a minor third above the tonic.
B Minor Scale C Minor Scale C Sharp Minor Scale
A Sharp Minor Scale D Minor Scale
A Minor Scale D Sharp Minor Scale
G Sharp Minor Scale E Minor Scale
G Minor Scale F Sharp Minor Scale F Minor Scale

Minor Pentatonic

The minor pentatonic scale is derived from the major pentatonic scale, and uses scale tones 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the natural minor scale.
B Minor Pentatonic Scale C Minor Pentatonic Scale C Sharp Minor Pentatonic Scale
A Sharp Minor Pentatonic Scale D Minor Pentatonic Scale
A Minor Pentatonic Scale D Sharp Minor Pentatonic Scale
G Sharp Minor Pentatonic Scale E Minor Pentatonic Scale
G Minor Pentatonic Scale F Sharp Minor Pentatonic Scale F Minor Pentatonic Scale

Harmonic Minor

The harmonic minor scale is the same as the natural minor but with a chromatically raised seventh degree.
B Harmonic Minor Scale C Harmonic Minor Scale C Sharp Harmonic Minor Scale
A Sharp Harmonic Minor Scale D Harmonic Minor Scale
A Harmonic Minor Scale D Sharp Harmonic Minor Scale
G Sharp Harmonic Minor Scale E Harmonic Minor Scale
G Harmonic Minor Scale F Sharp Harmonic Minor Scale F Harmonic Minor Scale

Melodic Minor
B Melodic Minor Scale C Melodic Minor Scale C Sharp Melodic Minor Scale
A Sharp Melodic Minor Scale D Melodic Minor Scale
A Melodic Minor Scale D Sharp Melodic Minor Scale
G Sharp Melodic Minor Scale E Melodic Minor Scale
G Melodic Minor Scale F Sharp Melodic Minor Scale F Melodic Minor Scale

Blues

The scale that is most commonly referred to as "the blues scale" is derived from the minor pentatonic scale
B Blues Scale C Blues Scale C Sharp Blues Scale
A Sharp Blues Scale D Blues Scale
A Blues Scale D Sharp Blues Scale
G Sharp Blues Scale E Blues Scale
G Blues Scale F Sharp Blues Scale F Blues Scale

 

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