Playing Scales on One String: A New Perspective

I'm going to show you how to play a scale on a single string, and then talk about why that's useful and a great way to practice guitar.

I'll play C major on the B string starting on the first fret. That's the scale.

What's cool is once I have that pattern, I can take that exact same pattern and move it to any other string. Start on the fifth fret of the G string: same pattern. Down to the A string: same pattern.

You can start to visualize the space between the notes in the major scale and understand that the major scale has a specific pattern of intervals: whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step.

You can really visualize that when you're playing it all on one string.