![]() ![]() If you need help reading tabs, click here. I’ve tabulated these exercises to make it easier. But regular practice will get your muscle memory going. They can be finger twisters and mind twisters too, especially when you’re mentally tired. At points you will need to cross strings which will give your right hand some practice too. Remember, you can play really fast, but if you aren’t consistent or in time with the music, you sound like you don’t really know what you’re doing. This will help you to play consistently and in time. Use a metronome like Sound Brenner which you can download for free for Android or IOS. Fretting Hand Exercisesĭoing these exercises regularly will help you to gain dexterity and speed. That string is represented by the red dot on the nut. It’s still useful to know and you should be aware that it incorporates the use of the open D string. As mentioned, it’s not part of the CAGED system. We’re back to using the root note in the 10th fret on the low E string. D Major Scale 4Īs you can see, the first D is in the same place as with scale 3, but the shape differs in that the D in the 7th fret is used. This shape is all the way at the top of the fretboard, so pretty easy to get to and familiar territory for beginners. This shape is good for practicing how to shift if you have shorter fingers, otherwise, you can probably get away with playing it with each finger getting a designated fret. Position 2 of the caged system is harder to play if you don’t have a cutaway guitar since you need to get down to the 15th fret. Most if not all guitars still have fairly easy access to the twelfth fret. The frets are smaller the further you go down although the neck does get wider. Most people shouldn’t have too much of an issue playing so far down the fretboard. The same goes for when you play it backward. You’ll hear that it resolves nicely because if you play the scale correctly, by the time you get to that last D, it sounds like you made it home. I chose to make this one first since it starts on the root note, not just because it’s position 1 in the CAGED system. All five shapes are moveable, as long as you know where the root notes are.Īlso, all the CAGED scales can be linked so you can play across the whole fretboard as it suits your needs or creativity. For some scale shapes, you may need to shiftĪ helpful thing to know (if you didn’t) is that all except the last of these scale shapes are the CAGED system scales. You will find that if you designate each finger a fret, you will cross the fretboard more easily and smoothly. If you find it easier, you can just practice from D to D, and leave the other notes that come before that out to really get a feel for the major scale.ĭon’t leave your pinky out. Most will span two octaves (an octave is 8 notes, in this case, D to D). The scales may not always start on the root note, but rest assured that the notes are all in the D major scale. It’s helpful in the beginning to say the notes, whether out loud or in your head which will help you to get to know the notes on the fretboard. These fretboard diagrams have the root note (D) marked in red. Next is to get to know your fretboard which is where playing your scales up and down really comes in handy. There you have a bit of theory for D major and then some. Between all the other notes, to get a half step up, you would need a sharp. The only thing you need to remember here is that between E and F and B and C, there are half steps. If remembering the sharps in the scale is difficult for you (for example, this is easy for me, but my husband prefers the pattern), you can memorize the pattern and always be able to know what any major scale is: In other words, the D major scale looks like this: I mention the sharps in this order because sharps (and flats) always follow the same order: F#, C#, G#, D#, A#, E#, B#. According to the circle of fifths, a very handy tool that you can use to see the sharps (♯) and flats (♭) in the key (and the key signature), D major has two sharps: F# and C#. ![]()
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