Actually you can play guitar without knowing the scales, but you'll never get any further than playing basic riffs by tabs. Understanding the scales is vital for going to new levels of guitar playing. It helps a lot in learning a song by ear and even most when you make your own music.
There are to basic types of scale - the major and the minor. The difference between the two scales is that the major scale sound happy and brings positive sense to the melody or the chors progression. The minor scale sounds sad, darky and brings negative sense to the music.
Do you need to remember exactly every scale?
Well, this is the best part - there is no need to remember every scale, because there is structure that they are build on and it's the same for every scale.
How to build a major scale?
The basic structure of the major scale is 2 2 1 2 2 2 1. These are the intervals between each step of the scale.
In the C major scale the first step is the note C and the second is D. There are two half steps between C and D.
The third step is E and the fourth F. There is only one half step between the two notes.
C D E F G A B C
2 2 1 2 2 2 1
Did you get now. It's really simple. The fourth note is half step higher than the third and the eight (the first one octave higher) is one half step higher than the seventh.
Go on! Apply this structure to every note to understand how it works.
Try it on the G note for example:
You should get this:
G A B C D E F# G
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