#patterns

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

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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

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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

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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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Fretboard Knowledge 2: Octaves & looking for patterns

Now you understand how the tuning of the guitar effects chord shapes lets take it a step further. We will learn how to look for the patterns, keeping in mind that the B string affects the "symmetry" of the shapes and patterns. Lets start with finding the note G in all locations on the fretboard: Lets break it down into smaller chunks, boxes or patterns if you will. Also notice the fret spaces and string gaps between the pattern shapes. Shape 1: Shape 2: Shape 3: Shape 4: Shap

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