Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, deals, features and more, direct to your inbox? Sign up here. Here we will take take a look the shape of the first position blues scale in E, and ...

The idea here is to see how the chord, scale and lick all relate to each other – the three shapes are pretty similar. Play the A chord with a first-finger barre. Your third finger should fall into ...

Namely, intervals where the notes’ frequencies have simple ratios — like 2:1 (an octave) or 3:2 (a fifth ... have developed diverse musical scales. Researchers know that culture plays ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Scales are the building blocks of most music. That’s why I – and maybe you – have had to ...

The fact that singers fail to consistently hit the right notes may have implications for the development of musical scales as well. For singers and their audiences, being "in tune" might not be as ...