I quite regularly see forum posts from players looking for a resource for "box patterns" of the major scale. In ...

This lesson is about "3 note per string" major scale patterns. There are no applications in this lesson, but we are learning several ways to play the Major Scale that bridge CAGED System patterns like the ones we learned in Major Scale Lesson #1 and Major Scale Lesson #2.

The idea here is that we want to forget about the 5 box patterns that we've already learned and turn the whole fretboard into one big scale pattern. This is the next step towards that goal.

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This weeks' lesson is about basic Major scale construction. The last lesson we did was about the CAGED system of root patterns, but this week we are going to learn how to build a Major Scale before we start learning the Major scale patterns themselves. In the lesson after this we will start to combine the two ideas. Hopefully the smaller chunks will allow you to digest this information more completely...

The first thing to realize is that a scale is just a pattern of notes that played together create a recognizable sound. We are starting with the Major scale because I think that ...