20 Aug C Major Scale

C Major Scale

This article is on C Major Scale.

If you are a musician then you know the importance of Scales, having a proper knowledge of scales helps in playing any instrument easily. For a guitar learner Scales become very important as it helps in playing tabs of any song and also the chords for the song. So, a Scale is a group of notes placed sequentially by their pitch. These group of notes are played individually.

Today we are going to learn C Major Scale and how do we find out a Major Scale using Major Scale formula. So firstly Major Scale consists of Seven Notes placed sequentially in an octave. We can find any Major Scale just by using a simple Formula.

Formula for Major Scale :- W-W-H-W-W-W-H

Here W is Whole Step which means there is a Fret Gap between two Notes and H is Half Step means there is no gap between two Notes. Let us take a look at how we can find out C Major Scale.

C Major Scale

A  A#  B  C  C#  D  D#  E  F  F#  G  G#

I have written down all the notes that are in the music theory, it will be easier for us to now look at scales. So our formula for Major Scale is W-W-H-W-W-W-H.

• In C Major Scale the first note will be base Note so it’s C Note.
• Now according to formula we have first whole step, now we have to move from C and skip one note(look at all the notes written above). After C there is C# which we have to skip so our next note will be D Note.
• We have done one step now let’s move to another we have again a whole step so after D we have D# note which we have to skip so our next note will be E Note.
• We have got 3 notes of our major scales until now C D E lets move ahead now we have a Half Step which means this time we do not have to skip any note so after E Note our next Note will be F Note as F comes just next to E.
• Let’s move ahead then we have a Whole Step so after F we skip one note that is F# so the next note of our scale will be G.
• Next is again a Whole Step after G skip one note that is G# so our next note will be A.
• Moving ahead we have one more Whole Step so after A skip one note that is A# we have our another note that is B Note.
• We have got all of our Seven notes of Major Scale but still there is also a last step left this is for the root note of another Octave (Means same base note but in different octave) so after B note we have one Half Step so the next note to B is C Note. Thus, this completes our C Major Scale. Let us have a look at all the notes we have find out. These are :-

C Major Scale :- C  D  E  F  G  A  B  C

Last note is repeated back again.

Thus by using this way we can easily find any Major Scales we wanted, just apply the same Formula and follow the Notes. Those who wanted to learn all Major Scales and how each scale are found can go through this article Major Scales In Guitar.

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