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Major Scales and Modes for Guitar

Major Scales These patterns are very similar to the Shearer patterns but coincidentally they are exactly the same as the ones I learned during my brief studies at jazz college. If the XII fret is too high simply substitute 12 for the open strings in I position. Play the patterns in every key -just move [...]

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Major Scale Position Patterns

I first learned these patterns at jazz school but later rediscovered them in the Aaron Shearer Third Supplement – Classical Guitar Technique -Scale Patterns (Buy it at Sheet Music Plus). They are fundamental patterns that don’t involve any stretches over multiple frets as you might see in jazz books like the Leavitt Berklee book or [...]

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