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Scale charts are sometimes written in a vertical format. The chart is just a picture of the neck of the guitar if it was standing up, neck in the air. You would still just play the notes from the lowest sounding to the highest and back down. This is the same way that chord charts are written.

 

 

 

guitar picture

Text format

+--+--+--+--+--+
| | | | | |
| 1 1 1 | 1 -1st fret
| | | | | |
+--+--+--+--+--+
| | | | | |
2 2 | | 2 2
| | | | | |
+--+--+--+--+--+
| | | | | |
| | 3 3 | |
| | | | | |
+--+--+--+--+--+
| | | | | |
4 4 4 4 4 |
| | | | | |
+--+--+--+--+--+
| |
6th string 1st string

Graphic format

vertical scale chart


Major scale ascending

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Major scale descending

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Page 2, Reading horizontal scale charts

Page 4, The root of the scale

 

Scale primer jump zone

Intro to scales - basic finger exercises
Reading horizontal scale charts
Reading vertical scale charts
The root of the scale





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