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Major Blues Scale Patterns for Guitar

A scale reference sheet for Major Blues Scale box shapes. These are the five shapes/patterns for the Major Blues 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 diff

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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.

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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

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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

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Basic Music Theory 2: Major Scale

This is the ‘bread and butter’ of Western music. It consist of 7 notes derived from the 12 note chromatic scale. We can use the chromatic scale to find the notes of any major scale/ key using a very simple method. Lets look at the chromatic scale again: I. The distance between A and A#Bb is a semitone or half step (one fret). II. The distance between A and B is a tone or wholestep (twofrets). III. Once we get to G#/Ab the notes cycle back round to A again. To find the notes o

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