3 Shape Fretboard: Guitar Scales and Arpeggios as Variants of 3 Shapes of the Major Scale
By Gareth Evans
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3-Shape Fretboard is for intermediate to advanced guitarists interested in learning how to work out guitar scales and arpeggios for themselves. Being able to create guitar scales and arpeggios yourself can give a better understanding, while knowing the logic behind them can make them more meaningful and therefore easier to learn.
- The Major Scale
It all starts with the major scale, the basis of music. All other scales and arpeggios can be defined in comparison to this scale. The book reflects this in practical terms by categorising the major scale into three different fundamental shapes, which once understood, can be used as templates to figure out other guitar scales and arpeggios.
- The CAGED system
This system can help to understand the larger CAGED guitar scale shapes in terms of their single octave components. For example, the five CAGED shapes for the major (or minor) pentatonic scales that each contain twelve notes, can be learned as only two shapes of five notes, which are joined end to end to give us the five full CAGED shapes.
- What Else?
>> Various 3-Note per string scales can be understood as the same combination of single octave component types.
>> See how basic major and minor chords are formed from within scales and look at triad and 7th chord based harmony.
>> Each scale and arpeggio type has a question, with the answer at the back of the book in guitar tablature.
>> 3-Shape Fretboard contains 600 fretboard diagrams.
>> Intervals are grouped together in the context of the scales they are intended for, which can provide a foundation for learning intervals individually on the fretboard.
"The 3 pattern approach is very interesting and well documented. There is lot's of good material and I like the approach. Very well organised, complete and clear with plenty of diagrams." Fabien Aubry, Composer, Arranger & Producer (Switzerland)
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3 Shape Fretboard - Gareth Evans
Table of Contents
Introduction
Fret-board Layout
The Major Scale
Key Signatures
Fundamental Scale Shapes
Low (Fretboard Diagram)
Mid (Fretboard Diagram)
Upper (Fretboard Diagram)
Low (Tablature)
Mid (Tablature)
Upper (Tablature)
Transposing by the Root Note
Root on low E string
Root on A string
Root on D string
Root on G string
Root on B string
Root on B string (Shifted)
Low Shape (Root on all strings)
From low E string
From A string
From D string
From G string
From B string
Mid Shape (Root on all strings)
From low E string
From A string
From D string
From G string
From B string
Upper Shape (Root on all strings)
From low E string
From A string
From D string
From G string
From B string
Some Practise Suggestions…
Combining Shapes
The C A G E D System
The C A G E D Major Scale
Pattern 1
Pattern 1 Major Chord
Pattern 2
Pattern 2 Major Chord
Pattern 3
Pattern 3 Major Chord
Pattern 4
Pattern 4 Major Chord
Pattern 5
Pattern 5 (3NPS)
Pattern 5 Major Chord
Learning Notes of the Fret-board
The Natural Minor Scale
From Low
From Upper
Pattern 1
Pattern 2
Pattern 2 Minor Chord
Pattern 3
Pattern 4
Pattern 4 Minor Chord
Pattern 5
Pattern 5 Minor Chord
Pattern 5 (3NPS)
Root Notes
Pentatonic Scales
Major Pentatonic
Low
Mid
CAGED
Minor Pentatonic
Low
Upper
CAGED
Modes of the Major Scale
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian (Natural Minor)
Locrian
Pattern 1
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Pattern 2
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Pattern 3
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Pattern 4
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Pattern 5
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Pattern 5 (3NPS)
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Individual Intervals
Modes of the Natural Minor
Pattern 1
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Pattern 2
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Pattern 3
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Pattern 4
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Pattern 5
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Pattern 5 (3NPS)
Aeolian (minor)
Locrian
Ionian (Major)
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Creating Modes
Lydian from Mid - Root on A string
Dorian from Low - Root on low E string
Locrian from Upper - Root on D string
Mixolydian from Low - Root on D string
Dorian from Upper - Root on G string
Phrygian from Low - Root on A string
Locrian from Mid - Root on D string
CAGED Modes
Dorian
Low
Mid
Upper
CAGED
Phrygian
Low
Mid
Upper
CAGED
Lydian
Low
Mid
Upper
CAGED
Mixolydian
Low
Mid
Upper
CAGED
Locrian
Low
Mid
Upper
CAGED
Harmonising the Major Scale
Harmonising the Minor Scale
Chord Sequences
Major Keys
Minor Keys
Arpeggios
Major
Low
Mid
CAGED
Minor
Low
Upper
CAGED
Major 7th
Low
Mid
CAGED
Dominant 7th
Low
Mid
CAGED
Minor 7th
Low
Upper
CAGED
Diminished
Low
Upper
CAGED
Minor 7th b5
Low
Upper
CAGED
Other Arpeggios
Augmented
Low
Mid
CAGED
Major 7th #5
Low
Mid
CAGED
Dominant 7th #5
Low
Mid
Upper
CAGED
Dominant 7th b5
Low
Mid
Upper
CAGED
Diminished 7th
Low
Upper
CAGED
Minor(Major7th)
Low
Upper
CAGED
Other Scales
Blues Scale
Low
Upper
CAGED
Blue Grass Scale
Low
Mid
CAGED
Dominant Pentatonic
Low
Mid
CAGED
Harmonic Minor
Low
Upper
CAGED
Phrygian Dominant
Low
Mid
Upper
CAGED
Melodic Minor
Low
Upper
CAGED
Lydian Dominant
Low
Mid
Upper
CAGED
Altered
Low
Mid
Upper
CAGED
Symmetrical Scales
Whole Tone Scale
Low
Mid
Upper
CAGED
Diminished (Whole-Half)
Low
Mid
CAGED
Diminished (Half-Whole)
Low
Mid
CAGED
Answers
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Introduction
This book is for intermediate to advanced guitarists interested in learning how to work out scales and arpeggios for themselves without referring to fret-board diagrams. Although this book, as a tutorial, does show the resulting scales and arpeggios, its aim is to teach you to be able to create them yourself.
Rather than explaining the theoretical structure of scales and arpeggios, then seeing how they look on the fret-board, this book explains the structure of scales and arpeggios entirely on the fret-board. It all starts with the major scale, the basis of music. All other scales, arpeggios and chords are defined in comparison to the major scale. The book reflects this in practical terms by categorising the major scale into three different fundamental shapes, which, once understood, can then be used as templates to figure out other scales and arpeggios.
To understand the fret-board, knowing the intervals on it is often considered important. The 3-shape system can make this easier by grouping intervals together in the context of the scales they are intended for. In turn this can provide a foundation that can lead on to learning the intervals individually on the fret-board.
This method is how I learnt the fret-board, and from thereon largely how I see the fret-board. I didn’t refer to any other scale diagrams to write this book and for some years any scale diagram I refer to is subsequent to having worked the scale out for myself. Being able to create scales, arpeggios and chords yourself can give you a better understanding of them and knowing the logic behind them can make them easier to remember. I prefer to teach this method to my own intermediate / advanced students, having quite successfully done so.
This book is primarily about the geometry of the fret-board, guitar scales and arpeggios. Its methods should be used as part of a larger practise regime. Each scale type has a question, with the answer at the back of the book in guitar tablature. The link to the audio tracks is given in the first relevant part of the book. Further music theory is also covered to the extent of major and minor chord harmony.
Some parts of the book refer to and are linked to other parts, to return to your previous location just use the back button on your eReader.
Fret-board Layout
It is first necessary to cover the basics of the fret-board’s layout. Many may already understand this so it is here to make sure nobody is left out. There are twelve notes in music, as follows…
The diagram below shows how the notes are