pdf Scales & Harmony: The Complete Guitar Fretboard View (Everyfret)

Seven scales, one set of notes, one grid. Most books print it seven times.

C major, D dorian, E phrygian, F lydian, G mixolydian, A natural minor and B locrian are the same seven notes read from seven different places. They give you the same seven chords. On the neck they are the same dots — only the root moves.

So this book is filed by the notes rather than by the name. Ten chapters share a part, and the chords they all give you are printed once, at the head of it.

What is in it

• Eleven scales in twelve keys — 132 chapters: major, the six modes, harmonic minor, both pentatonics and the blues scale.
• Every position of every one, drawn at the fret it actually starts on, with note names and degrees on every dot.
• One climb per chapter, in tab: the whole scale as a single ascending line, each pitch placed exactly once.
• The chords of each collection — every chord, at every fret one hand can reach it from, with the positions that hold the whole key marked in the margin.
• The staff, the keyboard and the circle at the head of every part, so the same seven notes are shown four ways before you play one.

A complete edition. This volume collects and reorganises the material in Scales & Boxes and Modal Chord Progressions, and it is not a supplement to either — if you own one of those, this is the same ground filed a different way, with the harmony and the scales in one place. If you own neither, start here.

Not fingerings. Which finger takes which fret depends on what you played before it and what comes next; a printed answer to that is wrong more often than right. What is printed is where the notes are, and every shape was found by a search that checks it against a real hand — a four-fret span, no finger asked to be in two places.

For guitarists who know the boxes and want the fretboard, and for anyone who has learned the modes as seven separate things and suspects they are not.

Every diagram in this book is live at everyfret.com — free, no account, nothing to install. Click a note to hear it, pick any position on the neck, or change the key, the scale or the tuning. Each page here prints the address of its own.