Basic C-6th Scale Patterns: Lesson #1

[robert kramer]

This is the first week in a series of lessons on basic C-6th scale patterns. These lessons will show how to organize scale tones into patterns and how to alter these scale patterns to get jazz sounds. The tuning is C-6th with a D on top. The scale patterns will be played on strings 5, 4 & 3 with the knee lever that lowers the 3rd string C to B. (Please note most the scale patterns used these lessons can be played on strings 8, 7, & 6 of the E-9th tuning - no pedals or knee levers)

Lesson One: With our 3rd string C lowered to B, let’s look at the notes of a C Major Scale on strings 5, 4 & 3.

The first fretboard diagram shows the notes of the C Major Scale: C D E F G A B C
The second diagram fills in the all notes of the C Major Scale from the 5th to the 13th fret.

(C-6th w/ knee lever lowering 3rd string C to B)


Now let’s play a C Major Scale over a C Major Seventh Chord in a 4 note pattern up and down the fretboard.

(C-6th w/ knee lever lowering 3rd string C to B)

Next week: D Minor 7th Scale

[Eddie Harper]

Thanks Robert...Much appreciated.. Eddie