Harmonising the Major Scale Guitar Lesson

Hidden within the major scale are seven beautiful arpeggios. This video explains the very simple theory behind finding these. It also shows a classic progression which will enable you to start playing these arpeggios in a meaning ful way .

Here we look at harmonising a C major scale on the 8th fret. From this scale we derive the following arpeggios.
C maj7, Dmin7, Emin7, Fmaj7, Gdom7, Amin7 ,Bhalf dim


Full diagrams of the scales and arpeggios at
http://www.danbohane.co.uk/lessons_theory_technique.html

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[BassFace68]

Hi Dan,not near Blackpool are you?

[danbohane]

@BassFace68 no I'm in Leicester

[closetome]

Hi. Can you harmonize the minor scale in four note chord harmony as well? What about the meoldic minor, dorian etc? Thanks for the vid.

[danbohane]

@closetome you can harmonise any scale. If you harmonise a natural minor you get the same arps as the major but starting on a minor 7th. You can harmonise a melodic minor or harmonic minor with interesting results. Some jazz [players use these arps but they are often a bit obscure for my taste

[havenstuff42]

ok - i figured out why i was confused a bit - despite your mapping out of the arpeggio's, that is NOT what you actually played - example... when you play the Fmajor 7 arpeggio the highest note you hit is a D (yet your chart would have that note being an E) - and from there on you do NOT play what it is you charted out. I still get the point and am grateful for this little excursion, but it reminds me of how messed up we can get sometimes watching youtube vids! LOL

[danbohane]

@havenstuff42 sorry if there any confusion.

[2isuru]

Super awesome thanx man

[havenstuff42]

no worries - still in awe of the concept and appreciative of your vid!!

[mifski]

i really enjoyed this lesson. and learnt alot too thanx for sharing! cheers mate.

[havenmusic42]

hi and thanks - this is great - i dont know how to view the tab (dont see it anywhere "to the right") - so please keep this up fer a little while - I saved to me favs on my computer and want to work on it a bit - i am having to figure it out by ear - thanx again - love it!