Now I'll show you how to play the E minor scale in the first position, just watch. So again, there I actually played two notes higher than the root note he sharpened g just because they're also notes in the E minor scale, but also in the first position, so might as well just play them. Now I'm gonna play it nice and slow and follow along as best as you can. Start out with the low E note. Then F sharp on the second fret of low E G, jump to the A string second fret which is B, C on the third fret. jump to the next string.
So there's the first octave, let's go to the next, F sharp. Again, fourth fret on the D string is that F sharp there, give you a minute to find it. Can't go to the next note, which is also on the next string G, a second fret, then B on the next string C on the first fret of the B string D, third fifth. Then we've reached the end End of the second Okay. Let's just play the next two notes which are also F sharp and G in the key of E minor. Going back down on the P string F sharp on the fourth fret of the D string.
E, d c, d A g F sharp, and E. Cool. Awesome. So now you can practice that, again, just getting the mechanics of it the fret number in which string and all that sort of thing. So just like in the G major scale, we said, the scale degree for each note that you played. It'd be a good idea to do that for the E minor scale too. It's really the formula for a minor scale.
So the first note or the root note is the low E, or E. second note is F sharp. Now it's the next note is called the flat three. I won't really get into that, but it's just good to call it that. Flat three and then four Five, flat six, flat seven, etc, you'll see the diagram on the screen. So you can take a look at that and go through the notes, route two, flat 345, flat six, flat seven, and route. Now, the flat means just going this way, a half step down in pitch.
So for example, if I were to play this B note, the plot would be going this way, a half step. The reason g is the flat three of E, because this just the plain three of E is right here, which is called the G sharp. So in the minor scale, the three has to be a flat, so we just go down a flat three. Now that's probably a little too much info at this point. But just so you're sort of aware of these things. And lastly, you'll also see the tab on the screen.
And it would be a good idea to play the minor scale reading the tab so you can practice practice your tab reading, which is again used to learn so many things, songs, scales, etc. Now we will go on to the next lesson, where we will learn three different riffs or short melodies in E minor.