Hey guys, today I am going to show you how to play a simple and sweet melody on the electric guitar. The goal of this lesson is to use the G major scale to write a melody that anyone can sing as opposed to a guitar solo.

The problem with learning scales on the guitar is that most of the time, we focus on playing them in boxes or vertical positions. In this lesson, though we are going to play a melody horizontally up and down the neck. This is an excellent approach anyone can use to write singable melodies on the guitar.

I am not going to show you how to play the G major scale note by note. There are plenty of websites that show you that. Instead, we are going to break down the G major scale into short melodies played in different positions of the neck.

I am showing you the melody on the electric guitar, but you can also use an acoustic guitar.

Enjoy this lesson.