Yep. Scales are just patterns (intervals) starting from the root. John's link on this thread had a list on the patterns. Now on guitar the visual patterns can change. So watch when moving to a root on a different string. Like if you were to play an A major scale from the 5th fret on the low E string, opposed to if you were to play an A major scale from the 7th fret on a D string. The visual pattern will change within the octave because of the way the B and high E strings are tuned compared to the other strings. You know how you tune your A string by playing the 5th fret on the low E, and so on. But once you get to tuning the B string, it's the 4th fret. Anyways here's how it looks on the guitar.

A major scale from 5th fret on low E string.

e:-------------------
b:-------------------
g:-------------------
d:------------4-6-7--
a:------4-5-7--------
e:--5-7--------------

A major scale from 7th fret on D string.

e:--------------------
b:------------7-9-10--
g:------6-7-9---------
d:--7-9---------------
a:--------------------
e:--------------------

I know this wasn't exactly what you were asking but I wasn't sure if you think of scales as visual patterns or not. But anyways if the root consists on the same string, yeah it's the same visual pattern. But if it (root)changes string, watch for needed compensation. Hopefully that didn't confuse you.

The pattern of a scale is always the same whether the root changes or not. When the root changes the pattern stays the same, just the root (starting point)changes.

[Edited by noticingthemistake on 05-15-2003 at 11:27 PM]