A blog to help with learning and teaching Guitar, Ukulele, Bass Guitar and Piano. Written by Theo Lawrence / TL Music Books.
These scales consist of 5 notes in the C major scale, which are C, D, E, F and G. The notes in the scale are then played in various positions on the guitar neck in chronological order.
Look out for fretting hand finger number instructions in the notation to help you to use the correct fingers.
The exercise sheet should be played in one sitting, whilst following the repeat signs and doing 4 times of each line.
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Based around the first 3 or 4 strings, these guitar scales are one octave G major scales that move from one position to the next and don’t always start on the root note of G.
The aim of this sheet apart from being guitar warm exercises is to link the pentatonic scale notes together as they move up the neck, using the same notes but on different frets and strings. The hope is to help demistify playing further away from the open strings and learning how to move up and down the fretboard.
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This beginners guitar scales warm up sheet with chords contains 4 one octave scales with the corresponding chords at the end of each one. The scales included are two G major scales in different octaves and with different chord variations at the end and also A major and C major scales.
The C/E chord is an easy variation of a C chord, and the G/D chord is an easy variation of a G chord. If you are able to do the full chords you can play them instead, or have a go at these easy chords instead, which by the way are useful moveable shapes if you move them up the fretboard and convert them into barre chord shapes by holding down the 1st finger across the first 4 strings and playing the rest of the chord in relation to this.
Use the strumming rhythm with the chord progression and chord diagrams to play the strumming exercise. Then for the fingerpicking exercise you will need to follow the tab and play the exercise using all 4 fingers. Holding the suggested chords down won’t help much with this exercise but the chords above the tab will fit if someone else plays those along with the fingerpicking pattern.
The strumming pattern for each chord is Down, Down Up, Up Down Up. D DU UDU.
Intermediate players could play the barre chord F on the right instead of the easier F.
This chord progression of G F C G is could be in the key of C, where I IV and V are C F and G (V IV I V), or it could be in the key of G where the 7th diatonic chord is flattened to a major chord, and the chord progression would be I bVII IV I.
This exercise sheet is from a 21 page pdf ebook called Beginners Guitar Chords, Rhythms & Fingerpicking Exercises – 2025 Edition.
