The premise of my RelationShapes scale system is just to give you a roadmap for different sounds on the guitar. All you're gonna learn today is a real basic major scale – but I'm gonna get you ...

In this feature we will focus on six scales, three minor and three major, all of which have their own intervallic DNA, with ...

C - 2 frets - D - 2 frets - E - 1 fret - F - 2 frets - G - 2 frets - A - 2 frets - B - 1 fret - C. You might well already know that the word ‘tone’ means a two-fret gap. What this means is you can ...

The ‘happiest’ sounding of the modes, the Ionian is identical to the major scale, so it’s highly likely you’re already playing it on guitar. However, things really come alive when you ...

And if the idea of learning a scale is off-putting, step this way – we can do it through chord shapes. In fact, the three easy shapes we're going to look at are here almost identical to open chords ...