In this lesson, we're going to create several minor scales going up and down the neck using the pattern for the minor scale. Let's take a look at how to do that. So now I'm going to show you how to create a minor scale going up and down the neck. Starting from any note on the neck, I think it's really important that you learn to do this on one string before you go ahead and start just memorizing these random patterns, which are probably not going to make any sense to you. So I think it's important that you learn how to create the scales going up and down just one string, and then learn how to create them going across the strings. And then I think it makes more sense then to move on to the actual position so you can start memorizing all the fingerings they'll have more meaning and make more sense to you.

It'll be a lot easier for you to learn. The last lesson I talked about how to create a minor scale use in whole steps and half steps where I went. whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, half step, whole step. Another whole step, now we're going to do is we're going to talk about, so those are actual notes here in the scale, we're going to start assigning them numbers. So like this G, this team g right here is going to be the first node, the scales, we're going to talk, we're going to call that one, then we're gonna go up a whole step to to the second node in the scale, then we have a half step to go, which is going to be a flat three. The reason this is called a flat three is because the interval from here to here is a minor third, from here to here would be a major third from G to B, that would be a major third interval, but in minor, we don't have a major third we have a minor third interval.

So it goes one, two, flat three, then we're gonna go up a whole step to four, then we're gonna go up a whole step to five, then it's a half, step two, flat six, and then a whole step two, flat seven, and then a whole step back to the root, which is one. So let's go ahead and do that one more time. We're going to start down here. Here on G, we have one whole step to two half steps, the flat three, a whole step two, for a whole step two, five, a half, step two, flat six, whole step two, flat seven, and then a whole step back to the root, which is one. So in my brain, what I do is I just need to know where the half steps, the half steps are between two and flat three. And they're between five and flat six.

So as long as I know that I can quickly create a minor scale anywhere on the neck. So I when I'm creating a minor scale, I'm really thinking of the numbers not necessarily the whole steps and half steps, it's just really important to know where the whole steps are, and where the half the half steps are. So like between one and two is always a whole step. And really, there's a whole step between every interval every interval number except for two in flat three, and five and flat six. Now let's go ahead and create some minor scales. Just start from random notes anywhere on the neck.

Alright, so I'm just gonna pick a random note on the guitar, I'm gonna pick this note right here, um, happens to be a B flat, but I don't really care what I care about that because I'm just gonna start here, I'm gonna follow the pattern and go one, two, flat three, or five, flat six, flat seven, one. I want to go back and go one, flat seven, flat six, five, or flat three, to back down to one. So all I'm thinking about is what is the number and do I have to go up a half step or a whole step? That's how I'm able to do that. Let's pick another one. Let's say I want to start from this note right here.

Here's a random note. So I'm going to go down I'm gonna go one down a whole step, the flat seven, down a whole step two, flat six, down a half step to five. That's a whole step down to four and a whole Step down to flat three and a half step down to two. And then a whole step back down to a, which is one. So it's an A minor scale, we go, one, two, flat 345, flat six, flat seven, one. Now you might be thinking, what what fingers am I supposed to use for this exercise, it doesn't matter.

You can use whatever finger you want, you can use your pinky the whole time. If you want to be a little weird, I'd probably use my first second or third finger. But for this one, once we get into playing exact patterns, then you know we're going to talk about exactly what fingers to use. But for this exercise, just use whatever finger you want. All right, now let's create another random minor scale. I'm going to start here with this half.

And we're going to go one whole step to two half step two, flat three, whole step before whole step, the five and a half step, the flat six, hole, step, the flat seven, and then a whole step back up to F, which is one When we go back because one, flat seven, flat 654, flat three to one. So what you want to do is just do that, you know, I'd probably do at least 50 times or however many times that you're very comfortable with creating those going up and down the scales. I will keep creating the minor scale up and down one string until you're very comfortable with the pattern and the sound of the minor scale. Then I would move on to the next step which is creating the minor scale going across the six strings.