Major Scale Soloing Masterclass: Beginner

This package is part one of a three part series (Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced). We recommend that you look at the complete box set, as this is a cheaper way for you to follow the course through stage by stage. More details about this at the bottom of the page. We would also like to extend a huge thanks to Jake Willson for being our 'Stig' and sessioning on this JTC Masterclass!

The major scale is quite possibly THE most important piece of musical information in all of western music. It may be 'Book 1, Page 1' in music lessons but this is the scale that most of popular music throughout the century has been based off of. Contained within it is the major pentatonic and minor pentatonic scales, the relative minor scale, all 7 diatonic modes, we even derive most of our harmony (and it's extensions) from the triads created inside this scale - It is the building blocks of modern music!

The major scale is often given an unfair reputation as being a bit bland and we're here to not only prove that reputation wrong, but to give you the most thorough and complete understanding of the workings of the major scale. This will become a solid foundation, laying the essential ground work from which you can stack all of your other guitar and theory knowledge on top of!

This beginner masterclass starts off from the very basics, explaining what a scale is, what intervals are, and the basics of what target notes are and why it's important that you know them. But this isn't a theory lesson... the theory is covered but we're more about the practical application here. We don't want you to memorise useless information but instead want you to understand 'why' the sounds you're going to be hearing work as they do, so you can use them in your own playing and put the concepts to work right away.

After some explanations (complete with useful scale diagrams) we have some exercises designed specifically to help you learn the major scale across the entire neck. If you've ever wondered how the pros are able to solo so freely on the guitar that's because they can visualise their scales as one big shape that spans the whole neck. With this series you can learn to do that too!

After the exercises we have licks designed to start putting everything into a musical context. They will take the concepts from the explanations and exercises and use them in a practical musical setting.

Finally, we have the sample solo which takes all of the concepts covered in this series of the masterclass, along with some cool new ideas to challenge you. Mastering (and genuinely understanding) the lines in the solo is your final task. Studying this will require you to use everything you've learned and put your new skills to the test!

As ever, we have included everything you need to practise and perfect the material in this package. There are video and audio tracks for you to watch/listen and study, accurately transcribed TAB/notation for you to analyse and master, and backing tracks for everything!

Complete Box Set:

Each package can be purchased separately but we strongly recommend starting with the beginner pack and working your way through to the advanced pack in order. This will give you the easiest, quickest and most thorough approach to mastering the major scale, and no matter what your level, you may pick up some extra information from the packages below your current ability. It's with this in mind that we have created the 'Major Scale Soloing Masterclass: Complete Box Set' which not only contains all three volumes for you to work through, but comes at a reduced price to save you a few bucks along the way!