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C Major is the most basic and easy to remember scale in the musical dictionary. It is made up from the following notes:
C D E F G A B C It has a scale spelling. This is where each note in the scale is given a number and this allows you to relate other types of scales to this. As a major scale it's scale spelling is: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 The scale spelling is a mechanism that can be used so you can identify the notes in each step of the scale. It also can assist in identifying notes in related chords. So for C Major you get C D E F G A B C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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The C Major triad is made up using the standard formula for major triads. In this case the 1st 3rd and 5th notes from the major scale.
The notes in the C Major scale are C D E F G A B C Therefore taking the 1st 3rd and 5th notes from this scale gives the triad notes of C, E and G Taking this one step further if you look at the first position C Major chord you have the following notes 5th String 3rd Fret = C 4th String 2nd Fret = E 3rd String open = G 2nd String 1st Fret = C 1st String open = E So you can see that the open chord fingering doubles up on the C and the E notes but keeps within the triad note structure. |
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