Guitar Lessons - Method For Playing Minor Scales guitar tab

standard tuning

|-----------------------|This is a G minor scale. Once you can play this

|-----------------------|you can play any minor scale.

|-----------------------|

|-------------3-5-------|

|-------3-5-6-----------|

|-3-5-6-----------------|

|-----------------------|This is G sharp (or A flat) minor scale. Notice how

|-----------------------|all i did was move from G to G sharp, but i played

|-----------------------|the same fingering. (dont look at the numbers on

|--------------4-6------|the tab, look at how many frets apart each is, they

|--------4-6-7----------|all in the same form)

|--4-6-7----------------|

|----------------------|This is an A minor scale. (what makes it an A minor

|----------------------|is that it starts on an A) To get from the G sharp

|----------------------|to an A minor scale, all you have to do is switch

|---------------5-7----|the root note from G sharp to A, and play everyting

|---------5-7-8--------|1 fret higher, because G sharp to A is only 1 fret

|---5-7-8--------------|away. Do that to every oter note and yu can play every

minor scale.