从大调音阶开始练习

Hi. This is Hub Guitar.

Before you try to read a piece of music, it's a good idea to do some preparation. This will make your job a lot easier.

First, you want to check the range and make sure you're in the right position on the guitar. You want to try to find an area of the guitar where you can play all of the notes in the written music, or at least as many as possible.

Then you want to take a look at what key it's in. Usually that will give you a clue to approach it.

For instance, if the music is in C major, and the lowest note is this G here and the highest note is this G, then you'll want to warm up with a C major scale in the first position. Most of the notes you'll have to read will probably be in that scale.

So warming up with the scale is not just a vague exercise. It has very real uses. If the melody moves by step, you just go up the scale. If the melody moves up in thirds, you play the scale in thirds. As much as possible, you want to be reading the music by following along with the scale.

Let's take a look at a few of these scales. I'm going to show you some different C major scales, starting with this C major scale in the first position. Next I'm going to show you a C major in the fifth position. Now let's do it in position seven.

So when you see a piece of music, try to figure out what key it is and ideally what position is ideal to play it. Then warm up by playing the notes in that key, or the major scale, in that position.