G Major Scale.

From wikipedia,

“According to Spotify, G major is the most common key of music on the streaming service (closely followed by C major).”

I am going to skip over a couple of simple songs I learned into a scale because it kind of marked my next stage of learning. The G Major scale, as you can read above, is an important scale in music. It’s used lots.

So what does G mean and what does major mean and what does scale mean?

A scale according to Wikipedia is,

“In music theory, a scale is any set of musical notes ordered by fundamental frequency or pitch. A scale ordered by increasing pitch is an ascending scale, and a scale ordered by decreasing pitch is a descending scale.”

Now, about G. The musical Alphabet Start’s at A and ends at G like so,

A, B, C, D, E, F, G

How the notes relate to each other has a lot to do with the sonic spacing between the two. For example, A-B is a distance of one tone. And one tone is composed of two semitones.

The theory is a little much to get into but this site lays it out well, and the preview for it includes a fretboard with each note laid out on it as it corresponds with where you would press your fingers.

The Musical Alphabet on Guitar for Beginners

Very handy stuff for a beginner to have on hand.

SO, what doe’s Major mean? It basically describes how the scale is built but the important thing to remember is, it sounds happy.

G major scale in my lil’ notebook

It sounds like this,

Cheers!

R