What you need to do now is construct all twelve major scales on paper, away from your guitar. Construct them in the following order C, F, BY Ai, DY, G', B, E, A, D and G. Check your results against the example below and start memorizing them by recitation away from your instrument. This cannot be over stressed. Almost all theoretical concepts—and that certainly includes the modes—will be based on this information, and the better you know these scales, the easier your musical studies will be. Here are the major scales. The music and TAB follow. Memorize, memorize, memorizell ¢ Major: F Major: B’ Major: EF’ Major: BY Major: D’ Major: @ Major: B Majo: E Majo! A Major: D Major: G Major: CDEFGABC FGAB'CDEF BCDE'FG AB’ PFGAB CDE ABCD E FGA D'E’FG’A’B’CD’ CAB CDEFG BcipterGt ats EF GHABC DE ABCDEF GHA DEFFGABCD GABCDEFG ‘Note: When arranged in this order, the number of flats in each flat scale increases by one, and the number of sharps in each sharp scale decreases by one. This is a helpful memory tool. Notice that each scale starts four steps above the last (from C to F four steps: C, D, E, F). This called a “cycle of fourths,” and many of the concepts in this book are presented in this order.