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Locrian#6 Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Locrian#6 Scale box shapes (the 2nd mode of the Harmonic Minor Scale). These are the five shapes/patterns for the Locrian#6 scale on guitar: 1 2 3 4 5 PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to different keys. I hope you have found this usefu

Locrian Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Locrian Scale box shapes (the 7th mode of the Major Scale). These are the five shapes/patterns for the Locrian scale on guitar: 1 2 3 4 5 PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to different keys. If this all seems confusing then check out my

Mixolydian Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Mixolydian Scale box shapes (the 5th mode of the Major Scale). These are the five shapes/patterns for the Mixolydian scale on guitar: 1 2 3 4 5 PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to different keys. If this all seems confusing then check

Lydian Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Lydian Scale box shapes (the 4th mode of the Major Scale). These are the five shapes/patterns for the Lydian scale on guitar: 1 2 3 4 5 PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to different keys. If this all seems confusing then check out my f

Phrygian Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Phrygian Scale box shapes (the 3rd mode of the Major Scale). These are the five shapes/patterns for the Phrygian scale on guitar: 1 2 3 4 5 PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to different keys. If this all seems confusing then check out

Dorian Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Dorian Scale box shapes (the 2nd mode of the Major Scale). These are the five shapes/patterns for the Dorian scale on guitar: 1 2 3 4 5 PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to different keys. If this all seems confusing then check out my f

Melodic Minor Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Melodic Minor Scale box shapes. These are the five shapes/patterns for the Melodic Minor scale on guitar, based off the CAGED System: 1 (D Shape) 2 (C Shape) 3 (A Shape) 4 (G Shape) 5 (E Shape) PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to diffe

Harmonic Minor Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Harmonic Minor Scale box shapes. These are the five shapes/patterns for the Harmonic Minor scale on guitar, based off the CAGED System: 1 (D Shape) 2 (C Shape) 3 (A Shape) 4 (G Shape) 5 (E Shape) PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to di

Minor Blues Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Minor Blues Scale box shapes. These are the five shapes/patterns for the Minor Blues scale on guitar, based off the CAGED System: 1 (D Shape) 2 (C Shape) 3 (A Shape) 4 (G Shape) 5 (E Shape) PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to different

Minor Pentatonic Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Minor Pentatonic Scale box shapes. These are the five shapes/patterns for Minor Pentatonic scale on guitar, based off the CAGED System: 1 (D Shape) 2 (C Shape) 3 (A Shape) 4 (G Shape) 5 (E Shape) PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to dif

Natural Minor (Aeolian) Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Natural Minor (Aeolian) Scale box shapes. These are the five shapes/patterns for the Natural Minor scale on guitar, based off the CAGED System: 1 (D Shape) 2 (C Shape) 3 (A Shape) 4 (G Shape) 5 (E Shape) PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it aroun

Major Pentatonic Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Major Pentatonic Scale box shapes. These are the five shapes/patterns for major scale on guitar based off the CAGED System. 1 (E Shape) 2 (D Shape) 3 (C Shape) 4 (A Shape) 5 (G Shape) PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to different keys.

Major Scale (Ionian) Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference for Major Scale box shapes. These are the five shapes/patterns for major scale on guitar based off the CAGED System. 1 (E Shape) 2 (D Shape) 3 (C Shape) 4 (A Shape) 5 (G Shape) PRACTICE TIPS Pick a key. Locate the note on a string. Overlay the pattern with the 'R' falling on the note of a chosen key. Play pattern up and down then pick another key. Practice ONE shape a day and spend 2mins learning the pattern and moving it around to different keys. If this al

Fretboard Knowledge 5: Minor Scale on Guitar

Three of the main Minor scales are called Natural Minor (otherwise known as Aeolian), Harmonic Minor and Melodic Minor. Right now we are only concerned with Natural Minor/Aeolian, we will be looking at the other two scales later. The reason we are starting with Aeolian is because combined with the Major Scale we can cover a vast majority of popular music using only these two scales. Another reason we are just looking at Aeolian right now is because it is actually a MODE of th

Fretboard Knowledge 4: Major Scale on Guitar

The fretboard should be making a bit more sense to you now. Its essential that you commit the five CAGED chord shapes to memory as we will be building the major scale around them. If you are confused as to what a major scale is theoretically, refer to Basic Music Theory 2: Major Scale. First lets take the key of G and find all the locations of the note ‘G’ on the fretboard: Now lets look at where the Gmaj CAGED shapes fall: G Shape: E Shape: D Shape: C Shape: A Shape: The not

Fretboard Knowledge 1: Guitar Tuning

If we look at a guitar fretboard we can see the notes are laid quite differently when compared to a piano: The notes on a piano are presented to us in a more logic manner. Starting from the first note on the right side, the notes are in order and increase in pitch as we move from left to right. This is only true to guitar if we were to play a single string and move along the fretboard in a linear fashion: However due to the ergonomics of guitar and since we only have one hand

Basic Music Theory 1: Chromatic Scale

In Western music we have a total of 12 pitches/tones/notes at our disposal. The distance between each note when played in sequence is a semitone. We call this the Chromatic Scale: A A#/Bb B C C#/Db D D#/Eb E F F#/Gb G G#/Ab The Chromatic Scale to a musician is the same as a paint palette to painter. Once we arrive at ‘G#/Ab’ we get back to ‘A’ again, only this time it’s an octave higher (the note pitch is perceived higher, we'll get on to this

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