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    Dorian#4 Scale Patterns for Guitar

    A scale reference for Dorian#4 Scale box shapes (the 4th mode of the Harmonic Minor Scale). These are the five shapes/patterns for the Dorian#4 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 useful,

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    Ionian#5 Scale Pattern for Guitar

    A scale reference for Ionian#5 Scale box shapes (the 3rd mode of the Harmonic Minor Scale). These are the five shapes/patterns for the Ionian#5 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 useful,

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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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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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    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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    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

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    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

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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 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

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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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    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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