Guitar: The Major Scale

I’m a big fan of using graphics to understand music.  My primary goal for the following “hi-res” guitar scale is  to allow selective attention, meaning that the user can easily concentrate on what they want to see.  So, if you want to focus on the positions – the scale starting from different notes on the bass string – you can. But if, for example, you want to find a way to play a lick further up the neck, you can easily ignore the position outlines.

The scale is the same top and bottom, with a few helpful postions lightly outlined.  I could outline a scale position for each of the seven starting bass notes, but it quickly becomes more than one can filter through easily.

Guitar - Major Scale, click for large version

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One Response to “Guitar: The Major Scale”

  1. Ed says:

    Wow!!! What I concept, lets shade in the areas of the five different positions!! I was just complaining about this. This is the best chart I have seen in the web world. I will distribute this to the band. Thanks!!! :) )