Theory

The major scale is at the heart of all scales. Here we take a look at what the major scale is and how it lays out on the neck of the guitar. Rock on.

Have you ever wondered what key you’re playing in at any given time? Adam Pietrykowski walks us through finding the answer to that question here.

Nicholas Tozier saves us all from the evils of monotonous scale repetition and how memorizing scales on the guitar isn’t always the same as being good.

Previously, we talked about harmonizing major scales to discover which chords occur naturally in a key. Now lets find out what harmonic area each chord sits in.