Here is a fret board layout showing the Major scale and Box pattern

[jaxjaxon]

You can move the pattern to any fret and be playing in the key of the root 3rd fret G 7th fret B

 

[hogy]

Amazing! Did you come up with that yourself?

 

[84superchamp]

They would love this over in Guitars!

 

[Phil3]

You can move the pattern to any fret and be playing in the key of the root 3rd fret G 7th fret B View attachment 434631

And if you change the root note to F# without changing the rest of that chart you get the F# minor scale.
Or something like that.

 

[Tone_Terrific]

CAGED
CAPO

Draw your own conclusions.

 

[JDJ]

I believe this is subtle commentary that this is a guitar-oriented music gear discussion forum, directed at those Pubsters who only participate in this fractional sub forum and trod little elsewhere. Well played.

 

[John Quinn]

You can move the pattern to any fret and be playing in the key of the root 3rd fret G 7th fret B View attachment 434631

Very cool - what do the W, H, and R mean? Fingers?

 

[RYAN1987M]

So, in summary, only play the notes without a letter on them at your own peril?

 

[killer blues]

Ahhh those neck charts confuse the heck out of me.
If I get stumped working a mode out in some oddball key my ears fix it for me

same here. in a fraction of the time too.

 

[Stabby Cat]

This looks very cryptic. What’s a “fret board?” Should I be worried?

 

[michael patrick]

What fret do you move it to to play in Dm, which is the saddest key?

 

[ctreitzell]

What fret do you move it to to play in Dm, which is the saddest key?

Juice by Lizzo is in Dm (somewhat)...do you find this sad?
or is that a question?

Sadness/ mood comes from melody and performance...key sigs are just a way to explain what notes to play for others...I'm sure some very sad moods can be achieved using A-B-C#-D-E-F#-G#

 

[michael patrick]

Juice by Lizzo is in Dm (somewhat)...do you find this sad?
or is that a question?

Sadness/ mood comes from melody and performance...key sigs are just a way to explain what notes to play for others...I'm sure some very sad moods can be achieved using A-B-C#-D-E-F#-G#

" It’s part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I’m working on in D minor, which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don’t know why. "

 

[jaxjaxon]

Yes I have been using this type of Major box shape pattern for years. No it will only do major keys. To do a minor key you need to move the half step down one semi tone making the H a W and the W before it a H. The R is the root / tonic of the key the W is a whole step or two semi tones and the H is a half step or one semi tone.

 

[Motterpaul]

I like the way you made it start on "A" - which is also the first letter in the English alphabet. So much easier to remember that way: A B C D E F G, except the actual notes are A B C# D E F# G# A (just to be clear).

Also - if you start this scale on the F#, you have the F# natural minor. If you start it in B you have B-Dorian, if you start it on D you have D-Mixolydian. And the notes remain the same so why do we even learn all those modes?

 

[amstrtatnut]

And the notes remain the same so why do we even learn all those modes?

I learned em so I could play Evil Ways, and other assorted love songs.

 

[DGA]

More like fret bored.

 

[RevHead]

C minor pentatonic.

 

[guitarjazz]

Finally, I have something to replace the Farrah Fawcett poster hanging over my bed with.