Harmonies

Practical Applications of Harmonised Scales Part 3 - Tapping

Today we are going to look at some ideas we can use within the harmonized major scale to help us compose tapping ideas. We’ll be looking at the e and B strings.

We are going to be basing these ideas around three shapes:

Major:      1 3 5
Minor:      1 b3 5
Diminished: 1 b3 b5

So, to start off with, let’s out the notes in the following chords:

C major:      C E G
C minor:      C Eb G
C diminished: C Eb Gb

Next, for each of those three chords, we want to map out those notes in ascending order on the second string. The root note, C, is in red: