in understanding myself and how I work...Ive realized im a tactile / visual learner and do a lot of repetition for memorization....I will write things over until they finally sink in...the last guitar teacher I had I dont think understood that I learned a lot from the writing...I mean I know that it is important to do the hands on practicing part too..lolol..but he was always shocked when he saw the charts and crap that I wrote out.....

so anyway I "write" the neck out ( at work I have time where I cant play a guitar and utilize the time with pen and paper ) so....I note where all the a's are where all the c's are etc.....

right now I am working on learning and knowing the major scales and the order of sharps and flats....

my question is this.....if I know where a note is on the guitar....and I know what notes are in a particular scale...then can I just find it on the neck and move to the next note in the scale and so on...to find the whole scale on the neck? Do all root notes start on the 5th and 6th string? The root note is what names the scale yes?

wow does that make any sense because i think I confused myself...lololol

thanks
sorry if I made this confusing