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All theory articles

How to Build a Major Scale

A simple explanation of the major scale: how the whole-step and half-step formula works, how to build a major scale from any note, and how to see it on the guitar fretboard.

Reader level: Musician

How to Build a Natural Minor Scale

A simple explanation of the natural minor scale: its whole-step and half-step formula, the example of A minor, how it differs from major, and how to see it on the guitar fretboard.

Reader level: Musician

Tone and Semitone

A simple explanation of tones and semitones: how distances between notes work on guitar and why one fret equals one semitone.

Reader level: Performer