Major Scale Ionian Mode Revision

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All you have to know about major scale, in one article. It’s not a normal lesson that we all are used to, but kind of resource center. If you want to know every basic data about major scale, take a look at this article and use it! Have a nice read, and I wish you interesting practice and analysis with that material. Without useless words, here you go.

Major Scale – Ionian Mode

Intervallic recipe : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Whole/half tone recipe : W, W, H, W, W, W, H
Semitones recipe : 0, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12
Notes in the key of C : C D E F G A B C

Harmonized Scale (chords):

 I – major / C
 II – minor / d
III – minor / e
 IV – major / F
  V – major / G
 VI – minor / a
VII – dim   / Bdim

Shapes On The Fretboard:

 1 – on one string                2 – normal position                           
E||---------------------------------|-----------------------------|
B||---------------------------------|-----------------------------|
G||---------------------------------|-----------------------------|
D||---------------------------------|-------------------7--9--10--|
A||---------------------------------|---------7--8--10------------|
E||--8--10--12--13--15--17--19--20--|--8--10----------------------|

3 – stretched position 4 – open position

-------------------------------|--------------------------|
-------------------------------|--------------------0--1--|
-------------------------------|--------------0--2--------|
------------------------9--10--|-----0--2--3--------------|
-------------8--10--12---------|--3-----------------------|
--8--10--12--------------------|--------------------------|

5 – trough two octaves

-----------------------------|-------------------7--8----|
-----------------------------|------------8--10----------|
-----------------------------|--7--9--10-----------------|
-------------------7--9--10--|---------------------------|
---------7--8--10------------|---------------------------|
--8--10----------------------|---------------------------|

6 – trough three octaves

-----------------------------|----------------------------------|
-----------------------------|----------------------12--13--15--|
-----------------------------|----------10--12--14--------------|
-------------------7--9--10--|--12--14--------------------------|
---------7--8--10------------|----------------------------------|
--8--10----------------------|----------------------------------|

6 (continued)

--12--13--15--17--19--20--------|-----||
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Chords of major scale:

 C    Dm   Em   F       G    Am   Bdim          
E||--0----1----0----1----|--3----0----1---------||
B||--1----3----0----1----|--0----1----0---------||
G||--0----2----0----2----|--0----2----1---------||
D||--2----0----2----3----|--0----2----0---------||
A||--3---------2----0----|--2----0----2---------||
E||------------0----1----|--3-------------------||

That’s all! Let me know if that kind of revision is OK. If yes – I’ll write more of that kind. Tell me what you would like to see in that kind of analyze in the future. Thanks for reading, come see my facebook!

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Comments

[_0R10N]

This lesson it's great and quite simple. It also provides a nice set of exercises for warming up