Doctorzoidberg wrote:I've been doing a bit of swatting on Music Theory, but it seem's bits here and bob's there, and it dosen't really connect....
I know Major Scales go TTSTTTS
So for example in G, its
G F A A# C E F# G (Is that correct?)
I think you've misunderstood how a scale gets built. It's not a matter of sharps in a specific place, it's a matter of tone intervals. The sharps or flats are an artifact of that, not the cause.
A major scale is the following series of intervals.
Root WHole WHole Half Whole Whole Whole Half
I II III IV V VI VII Root
If you take a look at your fretboard, the distance between any two consecutive frets on a string is a half step. Skip a fret, and you've got a whole step. So you can play a major scale on any open string with the following frets.
Open 2 4 5 7 9 11 12
Now, that's a bit of work if you want to run scales as part of a solo line, or something. So you can play that same interval pattern without moving your hands up or down the neck.
I'd reccomend reading up the scales primer (http://www.chordie.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=8133) to learn more about scales, and how they apply to pretty much everything you'll do on the fretboard.
Good luck!
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