The G Major Scale on Ukulele

In this video, we're looking at how to play the G major scale. Now this should be learnt after you have a good amount of skill at playing the C major scale. You should be able to play the notes of the C major scale without making a note mistake. And the reason is that there's only one note different between the C major scale and the G major scale in the first way that we're going to learn it, and this does go some way to explaining. What a scale is and what the key of G really means to us, which is what we, we looked at musical keys in a previous module. The G major scale has all the same notes as the C major scale apart from the F which is made an F sharp. So it's that same shape, but there are different challenges. With this also. So let's have a look at this, grab your ukulele and let's have a look at this scale. First of all, I would like you to play the G major chord, which is played like this, just to get our head and our ears warmed up that we're in the key of G. Now I'm playing the G major scale. The difference between this and the C major scale. That we looked at earlier, is just the F, the F. Is actually an F in this pattern that we're learning in this shape, if you're using the fretboard diagrams and uh learning materials that are on this pitch. However, we practise it in a very different way because we're playing the G major scale. We want the G to be the first and last note that we play for it to be that scale. So therefore, let's strum a G chord. But if you already know the C major scale, just have a quick play of it now. But when you get to that second string, play your middle finger rather than the first and just play everything the same. Now how this will sound correct is if we basically pause on the G, on the 3rd finger on the 2nd fret. That's when it starts to sound like the key and the scale of G major. But we're basing it on something that we know there. The rest of the pattern in this shape, what we call uh shape one, would just simply be adding three notes on string 4, on the highest string just here, and it would be the 4th fret, the 2nd fret, and the open string. Now we can hear that full, major scale. But of course those 1st 3 notes. Are the same as the higher octave. It's the same note, and that can happen more and more when we change key on the ukulele due to how this one is tuned, but it's really important to get that full shape learnt in all of these 1st 4 frets so that we can then build on it from there in the future. Because of that switching octave, I do want to show you a second way of playing this G major scale which allows us to play those higher notes. To enable us to play those higher notes, we need to go higher up the fretboard, up the dusty end as we call it. Um, but it starts off really simple. All we're going to do to play from this octave to a higher octave is play string 4. String one And then we lay on a ship on the thinnest two strings. The ship starts from fret 7. Which we play with our first finger, and it's 78, 10. 7910. In total