Although we already know our a major scale, because we've practiced it already, this is the first time we're going to be able to see it in a way that's written out. For us when we're reading music, a manuscript. Here's some things that we need to know. First of all, we we have our staff, which is the five lines, we have our treble clef. Now we have this new key signature. This key signature tells us a couple things.

First of all, it tells us we're in the key of A, and we don't have to know right away that tells us that that is actually in the key of A other than my scale, starts on A, F, A, C, A, and ends on an A, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A. Now, it also tells us that We have to place our fingers in a certain way. Now, this tells us that our F, Every Good Boy does fine, this f note is sharp. So it also tells us that every single f so in the case of, let's say this was a song, this f down here f A t would also be sharp. So in this case, this F, the only one that we have in our scale is sharp. And on our violin, F sharp is on our east string, but a regular one, one inch away from the nut, like normal, but that is an F sharp.

Now we know what that kind of looks like and sounds like F sharp. Now that we have this F sharp, we also have C sharp If I follow my C sharp over F, A, C, C sharp, f a c, c is also sharp. Where is C sharp as far as it relates to the scale, it's on our a string with our high too so I have an inch between the nut and the one and about an inch between my first finger and my second finger. And in store I have a high two is what we call that. And that is going to be my C sharp that I played. I also have this G sharp here so I have every good boy does fine.

What comes after F in the alphabet g abcdefg. So this note is the sharp that's up there is G is G sharp, and that affects this note here. This is just V, this G that we see. So even though that we're familiar with the a scale, whereas G sharp on our violin is on the E string, and it's going to be this high two on the E string. So I have an inch between my, my not in my one, and now an inch between my one and my two, and that is your G sharp. Now this kind of makes sense for us.

I play my regular one open. There's no sharp here. So I just play a regular one. Open, then one, regular one, I have a high two, which is that C sharp that we have here. Then there's the D, so ABCD that's the three. So let me mark these fingers down for you have open one, two Three, open 123 also marked down some other things for you.

I'm going to tell you that they're high twos, or regular ones or regular threes. This is open which of course there's just no fingers. I have a regular one or just as always, we've always put our finger there is a regular one. Your C sharp is a high to one inch away from our index finger. If it was a low two, it would be really close to our first finger but it's a high two or normal. Our three is regular because there's no sharp there.

We have a regular open that just means no fingers or regular one, a high two. Again, on the E string, we have a high two inch away from our index finger and then a regular three. So, I want to play this as an exercise for you first. And I'm gonna point with my bow to what note that I'm playing. So I'm gonna play just open a and open a is our second string. So, first string, second string.

So I'm just gonna play this open a followed by my first finger, regular one. Then my second finger because it's sharp is a high, C sharp. my very next note is a three but it's a regular three, so it's really close to my two followed by my open ear, I'm on my first string. fingers. Now I'm going to put a regular one or just a standard one on my first my first string, which is an F sharp, Every Good Boy does fine F sharp. After that comes a two, and this is a high two because it's a G sharp.

Every Good Boy does fine. The very next note above f is a G. High two so I'm an inch away from my index finger. And then three is a regular three writes really close to my second finger. So let's play this together. I'm gonna play doh rain door or open 123 open 123 and I'm going to count it out as one, two. Ready, pause, go in there We got we're gonna play the same time.

So here we go. One, two. Ready? Go. One more time back to open eight. Here we go.

Now we know how to play the eighth a scale as far as it relates to reading music. Good job and we'll see in the next lesson