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Is there a standard fretboard chart layout?

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(@jcw74801)
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Hello, I seem to have totally confused myself before even getting started. I want to begin learning pentatonic scales so I looked for charts and videos online. But there doesn't seem to be a standard layout. The vertical charts make sense to me and always seem to show the low E string on the left. But what about the horizontal charts? Some have low E on the top, like my guitar, while others have it on the bottom. Some depict the nut on the left, some on the right. Many are merely a grid with dots and no guide to identify the strings or fret direction. Shouldn't a horizontal chart be a mirror image of your guitar neck, nut on the left and big fat string on top (for right handed)? I'm probably complicating something simple. I seem to do that :)


   
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(@greybeard)
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I think that you will, generally, find that horizontal charts have the nut to the left and the low E at the bottom.

If you were to hold your guitar and rotate it so that the fretboard was facing upward, this is what you would see.

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(@shimone)
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digg this forum u may get some solution : http://www.jazzguitar.be/forum/getting-started/9346-fretboard-standard-notation-chart.html


   
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(@peaveyusa)
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www.jguitar.com
The whole layout, or parts of it and whatever you want.
It covers every major minor scale and note there is and gives you complimenting chords to go
with those scales.


   
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(@jcw74801)
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Thanks for the tips and the links. I'm sure that reading notes in their various forms will get easier with experience.


   
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(@shimone)
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http://www.jguitar.com
The whole layout, or parts of it and whatever you want.
It covers every major minor scale and note there is and gives you complimenting chords to go
with those scales.
are u referring this website?


   
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(@peaveyusa)
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http://www.jguitar.com
The whole layout, or parts of it and whatever you want.
It covers every major minor scale and note there is and gives you complimenting chords to go
with those scales.
are u referring this website?

Which website?


   
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(@rsadler)
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It looks like www.jguitar.com


   
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