5 Scale Forms for Guitar (Major - minor - Major Pentatonic - minor pentatonic) Guitar - Digital Sheet Music

SKU: A0.1177429

Major/Minor/Pentatonic Forms for Guitar (Sheet Music + Tab + Fretboard)
Pages: 13

Objective: Learn every key (major, minor, pentatonic) on guitar with the least amount of papers and the most amount of efficiency.

Bonus Pages:
1. A Major Scale across the full neck (to see how they all combine resulting in knowing the full neck)
2. Blank scale chart to add in memorization and making alterations.

Scales included:
1. F Major
2. C Major
3. G Major
4. D Major
5. A Major

Note:
I realize that the hand written font doesn't look the most professional, however this is intentional. I tried making these in photo editors, but since every shape was perfect, they were actually harder to memorize from (kind of like driving in a tunnel with no landmarks or lights, it's hard to get your bearings on how far you have traveled). The imprefections of the hand writing actually make things easier to remember and it feels less disorienting. I also did it that way as a reminder that I recommend trying to make these yourself for memory reasons. There are many different kinds of memory!!!

Tips:
1. There is a reason why it is not 12 or 24 scales. Since these scales are easy to move higher or lower, just these 5 Major will lead to all 24 major/minor keys throughout the entire fretboard. Therefore, making a C# Major scale chart is uneccessary, and if you are doing so, you may be over thinking music. Instead, it is better to ask yourself how do I play C major but 1 pitch higher and use previous work you have done to your advantage.
2. These scales do not end on the home note. This is a disadvantage in this way, however, knowing large portions of the scale neck in one position will allow you to play a key throughout the fretboard with no gaps in notes. In otherwords, learning one ocatave scales can have concise music theory, but it's impossible to know the scale in every part of the neck completely that way. These patterns aim for more practicality on guitar than concise music theory. This might be why some guitarists dislike music theory, since concise music theory is often impractical on guitar. For example, a text-book voicing of a chord to explain music theory, but then the voicing is awkward to play on guitar.
3. Play in the order of blue, black, and red. Sounds childishly easy but you would be shocked at how powerful of a concept this is, especially when improvising over songs that don't change key. This is how I play over songs I don't know seemingly by "ear". My ears aren't actually that good, I just understand the gravity and the pointing of notes.

Features:
1. Color coding. Blue notes are home (tonic) notes. Red notes are away (dominant) notes. Try randomly building chords, you will be suprised at how unique your chords will sound. You will start to see chords not as a single diagram and more as a flexible group of notes.
2. Left hand fingerings added. Don't mistake these for fingering numbers.
3. Letter names to aid in memorization.