Adam Gerow’s Skyturtle

This is a step up in difficulty, and something I wish I knew how to find earlier. The following fretboard again uses the key of G, but this time the overlay shows the most common chords for the key of G (G, Am, C, D, Em) as triads on the three treble strings.  I found it difficult to get the hang of using triads because, as you can see, they are tightly packed.  What helps me is to see where they fall in the pentatonic positions that I had mastered (mastered in the sense that I could move easily between them).

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.