Robin May

At some stage or another most players get down to the nitty gritty of learning where notes are on their fretboard.

To help with this I created some posters. Below is what the Know Your Neck poster looks like, and you can download a free A4 version here.


It shows all natural notes across a 13 fret length of guitar neck, hints and tips in identifying note names on-the-fly, and box positions for several most-used scales.

I hope you find it of use :)
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A scale is any consecutive series of notes that form a progression between
one note and it's octave
I completed my tutorial "What is a scale" by stating:
 
What differentiates one scale from another is not the notes that are used, rather it is the intervals (musical distance) between the notes.

Therefore we can define a scale by these intervals - and what we end up with is a "STEP PATTERN".

We are going to look at the major pentatonic scale step pattern in this post.

I've also written tutorials covering step…Read more

A scale is any consecutive series of notes
that form a progression between
one note and it's octave
I completed my post "What is a scale" by stating:
 
What differentiates one scale from another is not the notes that are used, rather it is the intervals (musical distance) between the notes.

Therefore we can define a scale by these intervals - and what we end up with is a "STEP PATTERN".

This post focuses upon the minor pentatonic scale.

I've also written tutorials covering step patterns for the major, natural minor…Read more

What most people refer to as the minor scale is in fact the natural minor scale, or Aolian mode.
  A scale is any consecutive series of notes
that form a progression between
one note and it's octave.  
I completed my post "What is a scale" by stating:
 
What differentiates one scale from another is not the notes that are used, rather it is the intervals (musical distance) between the notes.

Therefore we can define a scale by these intervals - and what we end up with is a "STEP PATTERN".

We are considering the natural…Read more

A scale is any consecutive series of notes
that form a progression between
one note and it's octave.  

I completed my post "What is a scale" by stating:

What differentiates one scale from another is not the notes that are used, rather it is the intervals (musical distance) between the notes.Therefore we can define a scale by these intervals - and what we end up with is a "STEP PATTERN".

We are going to look at the major scale step pattern in this post.

I've also written posts covering step patterns for…

Read more

A scale is comprised of different "notes" - that is, sounds that differ in pitch. In western music we use the first seven letters of the alphabet to represent different pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, B.

As children, some of us were taught these pitches but with different names, these being DOE, RAY, ME, FAR, SEW, LA, TEA.

In order to name all the pitches (or notes) discernible to the human ear the system of seven letters repeats itself.

The distance or "interval" between two notes of the same name, but a…

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