It is composed of the intervals: 1, b3, 4, 5, b7 Lets look at the old faithful Minor Pentatonic. It is possible to define any scale or arpeggio in terms of which of these intervals comprise the scale. Using these intervals, you should be able to see that the major scale is constructed using the intervals 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Viewing Scales and Arpeggios in Terms of their Intervals A proper treatment of intervals would be a bit different that what I’ve presented here, but I think this is the best introduction for the purpose of seeing these intervals in the CAGED position. We have now looked at each CAGED position in terms of the intervals that comprise each note in the position relative to the root note of the position. Use what you’ve learned with the major scale as the basis and recognise the flattened intervals by the major scale note next to the interval. I’m providing these diagrams for you to understand the concept, but similarly to the major scale notes you want to start to recognise these flattened notes on the fretboard while playing rather than memorising the diagrams. In our CAGED positions, this then allows us to number all of the notes in all the positions as follows: Similarly to when we formed these intervals on a single string, each number is the number of the major scale note that is a note up, but flattened. Once you feel you have a good grasp of the number of each note, you need to recognise that the notes between the major scale notes are also our flattened notes. Use the diagrams to understand the concept and ingrain the numbers while playing the scale on the guitar. This is best learned at the fretboard while playing the scale rather than trying to memorize it from the diagrams I’m showing. You could then practice this with the scale sequences and your own phrases based on the major scale. You might want to play the scale slowly and think the number your playing to yourself as you play it, or even say it out loud. We can then go through this process and number the notes of the major scale relative to their root note for the other CAGED positions and we get:Īt this point you want to go back to the guitar and continue practicing your major scale in all 5 positions but you want to start to see each note you play in terms of the number here. These numberings refer to the same intervals for the major scale on a single string but are simply placed across all strings in a position.
We are only going to look at intervals in terms of their distance of a note to its next lowest root here so the numbering goes back to 1 and starts again for the next octave. Note here that once we get to the 7th note, the next note is the root.
Looking at the major scale with the E shaped CAGED position we can number the notes as follows: This same numbering scheme can be applied to the major scale in the CAGED system as well as the major scale on a single string. We can then number the notes not in the major scale by using the number of the major scale note that is 1 note up and putting a b (flat) in front of the number.Įach of these new flattened notes also forms an interval with the root of the scale. The names of these 7 intervals are as follows: Looking at the major scale on a single string, we could number the notes of the scale as follows:Įach number here refers to an interval between the root note (the red dot) and the numbered note. You can see this distance as the number of frets between two notes on the same string.
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Now that we are familiar with the 5 positions and the major scale in each position the next step is to start to view each position in terms of intervals.Īt some stage I’ll devote a full section of the site to intervals but for our purposes here, lets take a bit of a simplified look at what intervals are.Īn interval is essentially the distance between two notes. << Goto CAGED Part 2: The Major Scale Viewing the Positions in Terms of Intervals
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