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CHORD SCALES DEFINED
Most often you'll hear scales played one note at a time. For example, if you were to play the C major scale, you would typically start on the C note and move up the notes of the scale one note at a time like so: C, D, E, F, A, B and then C. (There are several lessons in the Guitar Theory section that address what scales are, so if you're a little foggy on scales, be sure to check out those lessons.) But what about playing a "scale" more than one note at a time? If you were to start on three different notes of any scale and then move each of those notes up to the next note in that scale you would actually be playing the next chord in the scale. If you continue up the neck using the same strings, you would effectively be playing a "chord scale" in that key. Let me illustrate using a graphic example. Look at the guitar neck below. The 5th, 4th and 2nd strings show notes of the C major scale. Click the next button once. Now you should see a chord derived from those notes. (This is actually a Cmaj7 chord but that's not important at this point.) If you move each note of that chord up to the next note in the C major scale, you'll get a new chord (this one is Dm7.) Continuing up the neck in this manner gives you a unique chord-scale. Left hand finger numbers are provided to indicate each successive chord in the scale.
