Originally Posted by: zreynoldspJust as a thought, if you're struggling with the diagrams you could use the intervals instead and figure it out yourself.

With a tone being 2 frets, and a semitone being (obviously I guess) 1 fret, the intervals are as below:

Major - tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone-tone-semitone
Minor - tone-semitone-tone-tone-semitone-tone-tone

Armed with this info, you should be able to easily play either scale up one string - maybe that'll help you figure out the boxes... ???

Agreed with the others though - learn them one at a time or you'll end up pretty confused, or playing chromatics instead... :D

This is the answer I would really look into if I was the asker of the question ! Pick a key, and Look for how all the scale boxes are connected by the interval patterns listed above, and what you will see with practice, and study is one whole diatonic scale thru out entire neck interconnected.
This is where Steve1910 skill level will make a big increase if enough time, and effort are put into understanding these principles.