I really appreciate that you took the time to give this a look and provide your feedback. I like your wording suggestions and yes the fret numbers on my diagrams got shifted over by accident.

Yes, this is all about the finger pattern. As long as you are willing to shift your hand one fret to the left or right as you cross between the G and B strings you will be able to keep this single finger pattern going and play every octave on every location of the fretboard.

I suspect that most players who have already invested the time to memorize and use the 5 traditional scale patterns would have no reason to switch to something different. In fact, even though I discovered this and use this now, I still have those 5 traditional scale patterns burned into my head and I can still visualize them and use them to play scales.

I ended up posting this in the Music Theory section because I focused on the reason "why" this works and "how" the fretboard design led me to this discovery, etc, etc, blah, blah. In hindsight, I can see now that the end result "what to do" might have gotten burried under my lengthly explanations. :-)

So I am going to clean this up based on your feedback and add a section that will appeal more to those who just want to know "what to do". I will post that soon.

Thanks for the suggestion on the book. And YES, I hope Chris sees this and posts his opinion.