Scales: The First Position – Part 2
As promised in the last lesson of this series, here are some exercises using the root form.
Practice them slowly using alternate picking throughout.
As promised in the last lesson of this series, here are some exercises using the root form.
Practice them slowly using alternate picking throughout.
The first step to learn harmony on the guitar fretboard, is to learn the basic triad voicings. In this lesson, we’ll learn the root postion for the major, minor and diminished triads.
Starting on the C on the 6th string (8th fret), here are the voicings for C, Cm and Cdim:

Now let’s move up one string to play F. The shapes used are still the same.