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ChristopherSchlegel
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ChristopherSchlegel
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02/18/2009 2:52 pm
Originally Posted by: Itsmesillyonce you learn a shape or box...are they all movable?
just renamed based in the root note or where the scale starts? 3rd fret 6th string G....moved up to 5th than its an A scale?

Yes! :)

Maintain the same shape and move it around. All scales are like that on the guitar. This is because every scale has a formula it is built from. Every major scale has the same exact formula.

So take any of the three shapes in this lesson image:
http://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=10666

It is a C major scale as shown. Move any pattern up 1 fret it becomes a C-sharp major scale. Move it up 1 more fret, it becomes a D major scale.

Make sense?

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