Alright, so let me show you the blues scale in the 12th position, which will be pretty new territory for us. So the 12th fret, I mean, you could start down here, one and then first fret, second, third, fourth, fifth 678-910-1112 and find it that way. Now most guitars should have the two dots here, and that would indicate the 12th fret. Now, I know on a lot of acoustic guitars, there's not a whole ton of room left to play on the fretboard. So if you can just do the best you can to kind of reach around I know some of the bodies that the guitars don't have this what's called a cutaway here and so it's going to be a little tougher to reach. Now, this can be a little more of an optional thing to work on right now.

If your guitar just doesn't really allow for you to do that. You can maybe, you know, try it down the road when you get more comfortable with the guitar, or you have another guitar that allows for you to play on this 12th fret here, but maybe just give it a try. So I'm going to start with the index finger pressing down on the 12th fret of the low E string. Okay, and that is an E note, I think I mentioned a little while back, that the 12th fret is the same note name, as the string that you're playing it on. This is an E string, this is an E is just one octave higher. Same with the A, that's the A string.

This is an A note. So really, what's happening is it's almost like you're this, you're bringing the nut up, you're playing your index finger is playing all the notes that would otherwise just be played open like that. So he AD which a. Right? So I'll just play through the scale for you, and then I'll get you to follow along after that. Alright, so it can be really cool once you learn how to use it.

So let's start here, I'll go really, really slow. So get your index finger stationed around the 12th fret there. Once you got that, then you're going to jump up to the 15th fret which a lot of guitars have that dot there. So it's 1213 1415. Now, you can play it with your pinky or your ring finger. I'll just play it with my pinky.

All right, so I'll just do that one more time to help get you oriented around this position. index finger on the 12th fret and then the 15th fret with your pinky which again 1213 1415, the first.or the first dot after the 12th fret. Okay, now we're gonna go to the 12th fret of the A string with the index finger then the 13th fret on the A string went up from the 12th fret or with the middle finger and 14th fret on the eastern then up to the D string, 12th fret then the 14th fret on the D string then the G The 12th fret of the G, then the 14th fret on the G and the 15th fret and I'm just gonna shift up with my ring finger and then the B string 12th fret and then the 15th fret on the B string and then 12th fret on the high string and then the 15th fret on the high string and then back down, so 15th fret on the high string and then the 12th fret and then the 15th foot on the I'm just gonna slide down with the ring finger to the 14th fret on the G and then the 12th fret on the G 14th fret, D string 12th fret on the D 14th fret on the A string 13th fret on the A string 15 fret on the low E string and the 12th fret on the low Eastern.

Okay, so I know that was probably quite the workout I know that can be really challenging to try and do when you're first learning the guitar to start moving up the fretboard and playing scales in different positions. It'd be a good idea even if you can just get down the first say, you know the first octave of the E blues scale there. There would just help to develop that facility to start playing elsewhere on the guitar. When you've done that, first of all, that's an amazing accomplishment Good for you. You can again go through and say the notes II g A, B flat, B, D, or the scale degrees, root, flat three, four, flat five, five, flat seven root and, and then keep going up and then down, etc, that'd be a good idea to do. If that's just if you've had enough then go on to the next lesson.

But, or come back and revisit those things, it's a good idea to be able to say the note names and the scale degrees from whatever position you're playing in. And also, I, as you probably noticed, I was using my ring finger in the last little bit here. Now if I were to fully stay true to this position and have my pinky just designated solely to the 15th fret, and I mean, yeah, I could use that. my pinky there and, and you can do that too, to practice strengthening yourself. Take your pinkie it's just usually when it comes to soloing and playing, you typically don't do use your pinky in that sort of setting. Usually it's usually the ring finger or something.

Something like that. So, but it's not a bad idea just to try using your pinky as well. Once you've even attempted to play the E blues on the 12th position, then head over to the next lesson and we'll learn some riffs in the blues.