What is a scale guitar and bass?
Hello Dakota, Since you are asking 4 questions I will keep the answers fairly brief. #1 Yes a scale can be played any where on the fret board but remember, if you are moving the same position up or down the neck you are moving it into a different key. Each scale has more than one version (position) of it and they span the entire fretboard. #2 Yes you can play the notes of the scale in any order to create interesting melodies and riffs. It is common to practice playing a scale by starting on the lowest note and playing it in order to the highest note and back to the lowest. This is done to simply become better at knowing the scale itself. #3 this question makes no sense but see the next answer it may help #4 The major scale is the scale that we base all of our harmony and chord construction on. You know it as Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do. This is how we learn the major scale as children. If we start on the note of C we get the C major scale C,D,E,F,G,A,B,C. The formula for the major s
