Learning the Major Scales

BrandonWalsh at 09h11
27
Aug
2009
Learning the Major Scales

Hello everyone!

So, I'm a newbie that's been studying for a couple of weeks and I am currently learning the Major scale. I got it down so I can play pretty much any of the 12 scales at pretty high speed so I guess thats the good news. The bad news is that I can not simply take a note (say D#) and randomly play the notes in that scale - I have to go up or down to nail it.

I am not if I my description is good enough but what I mea
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One thing that I quite don't understand is that When we play songs we look at the score to identify which key to play So, what is the functions of major scales? Forgive me for such silly question. Thanks.
C Major G[---------0-2-4-5-7-9-10-12-14-16-17-] D[---0-2-3----------------------------] A[-3----------------------------------] E[------------------------------------] C D E F G A B C D E F G A B C G
OK I was trying long time ago to find the major and minor scales on their standard mode. I found them, I share them. If anyone has complete triads or pentatonics before I update this post feel free to help the n00bs. Tuning: Standard: Low to high
This is a major scale tutorial:^^ List of when the scales appears: C: 00:45 D: 01:25 E: 01:57 F: 02:33 G: 03:09 A: 03:45 B: 04:16 Db: 04:57 Eb: 05:36 Gb: 06:16 Ab: 06:54 Bb: 07:34
I don't really like to do anything where i dont understand the purpose of it, so how exactly does practicing scales relate to becoming a good player?
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