This is the right place for you to learn basic C major and A minor scale for beginners. A guitar player must have the basic knowledge of C major if he want to play some simple solo guitar. If you already know how to pluck & strum simple and basic chord, you know where to press your finger on the guitar strings according to the picture below. This basic C scale is the easiest for you to learn & understand of how the note should be press with your finger along with the path of the scale.

Each finger is assigned  as 1234 for reference to picture below of where to placed your fingers.

1. The red line is the path of each single note of this C major scale.2. Observe the scales and play it slowly first. Play it descending from the lower note.
3. Pick each single note the same time you press it.
4. The path of this scale is descending, from upper string to the lowest string of your guitar - from lower to high note.

In this scale, circled open string are meant to be pluck.

3 octave C scale

C scale on the 6th fret

C major arpeggio

1.Pick each single note with guitar pick slowly at first. 
2.Later when you have memorized the path and places, you can try to pick it in a single down pick in two part.
3.First pick it straight descending from the lower C to G. Single pick the A then begin the second part of single pick from the higher middle C to the highest C note.
4.Double circle of no.1 meant you have to press it with your no.1 finger toe first then the lower part of your no.1 finger. 

Open strings A minor

 The A minor scale can be play in C major or A minor key Chord progression. Play and learn the scale shown above. Start your pick from open A string.

3 octave A minor scale

A minor arpeggio

1. Play this A minor arpeggio scale the same as told in the C arpeggio part.
2. Empty circle meant lower part of finger no.1

           The more you practice to play all the scale in this lesson, the more you'll memorized it in your brain. Eventually you will see a pattern to this scale as if your fingers have eyes of it's own. When you have memorized the path, you can play the pattern to other chords. For example if you want to play the usual C scale in D major you could just slide the scale three fret higher to D. If you want to play the C major scale in G major chord, you can follow the example of C scale on 6th fret picture. Slide the pattern down to the 3rd fret of your guitar finger board. For all of these scale in this lesson, you can do an 'improvisation' meaning you can play it by your own path making your own melody out of it or you can play some simple tune or song you know using these basic scale. Have fun!