What is a guitar scale?

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Hi, i’ve been trying to learn music theory and there is a lot of things I don’t get.

Is a scale all the notes that sound good together? If so, why do some of them played together in the scame scale sound bad/dissonant? It makes no sense to me. Also, what is a key? Is it a group of notes/chords that sound good together? How do I start writing my own fingerstyle tabs?

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>why do some of them played together in the same scale sound bad/dissonant?

Each note in a scale corresponds to a certain frequency of sound. Notes with frequencies that are (roughly) in small integer ratios sound nice together. For example, the frequency of G is about 3/2 the frequency of C.

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