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(@audioboy)
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http://www.cyberfret.com/scales/basic/page2.php

Can someone pleeaasse tell me how to read that or give me a site that explains how.

And for those who saw my last post....i didn't forget the link this time


   
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(@biker_jim_uk)
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they are scales, if you play each dot in order, bottom left to top right you have the scale of the title

I'm not sure what the difficulty is here? There are accompanying videos showing the scales being played, have a look at them and it should all be fairly obvious.


   
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(@greybeard)
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It's pretty straight-forward. They're showing you a pattern for playing scales. The first pattern is for the major scale - any major scale! The red dots are the root notes, so playing that pattern with the root note on the 5th fret of the 6th string, will give you the major scale, based on that root note - A. Move the pattern further up the neck to, say, the 8th fret of the 6th string and you are playing in the key of C.
There are 5 patterns, which overlap (it is, in fact one pattern, that has been broken down into more manageable blocks) and are an endless loop - pattern 1 interlocks with pattern 2, pattern 2 with pattern 3 (and, of course, pattern 1) and all the was up to pattern 5, which interlocks, not only with pattern 4, but also with pattern 1.
http://people.freenet.de/greybeard/ScalePatternsGmaj.htm
This page shows you the G major scale.
http://people.freenet.de/greybeard/ScalePatternsAmin.htm
Here's the A minor scale.
http://people.freenet.de/greybeard/Gscale.html
Here, you can see what the G scale looks like, over the first 15 frets (once you get to the 12th fret, it just cycles around to the beginning, fret 12 is the same as the open string, 13 is the same as fret 1, 14 is the same as 2 and 15 is the same as 3, etc).
The difference between his diagrammes and mine is that he shows finger placement and I show scale intervals.

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