Musical Structure of Guitar starts with C Major Scale

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Here is the PAD mapping of C major scale onto the guitar fretboard.
This is by far the most important of all PADs, "white piano keys":


 


The purpose of this diagram and other PADs is to simplify familiarization with guitar and memorization of standard musical notation for guitarists which is known to be difficult.

The purpose of this diagram and other PADs is to simplify familiarization with guitar and memorization of standard musical notation for guitarists which is known to be difficult. The notes you see on this PAD are like white keys on piano. Memorizing them is the most basic guitarist's skill which gives an ultimate freedom in learning, reading and playing any kind of music. There are only 48 notes on 12 frets. PAD helps understanding of sound structure of the guitar fretboard and tremendously helps learning. Musical notation gives an intimate knowledge of musical theory. You will not need to memorize all these billions of chords positions and modes - you will be able to construct them all in your own head on fly. With musical notation it is so easy! It is made for that. Millions of musicians in hundreds of years used and perfected it. It does make sense. With PAD approach

You can learn all guitar notes in a month saving yourself tons of efforts and frustrations!

For success, you should memorize where all notes are without calculating any position. You just have to know where each note is. Your fingers should know it. Your eyes should envision it. Your brain should put it in a structure. And your ears should hear the sound.

What is proposed below is probably only one of the ways to work with the diagram. The PAD is designed to work with YOUR exercises and YOUR favorite method of learning. In case you do not have one, or curious what works for me, I provide you the way I am working with this.


From the blog

September 1, 2011

Where is the place of the PAD method in the learning. It is the best when one need to becom familiar with note symbols and their location of the guitar fingerboard, i.e. developing sight-reading skill. In order to memorize notes, one has to have a knowledge where notes are, so that the true memorizing, recalling may take place in training. These charts are very powerful presentations.

July 26, 2011
I remember notes of the guitar now so well that I continue recalling them in my mind when I drive a car, when I pretend listening to someone, when I sleep. I envision the whole pattern and even play some sequences with notes and chords. Sometimes I look at the diagram C major scale, and say to myself why do I need it for ?- it is so obvious where each note is! I already forgot that thanks to this PAD (nothing else worked for me) I was able to learn these notes !!!

 

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Available PAD in the key C - Am: Help | Home | Explanation | Musical Structure of Guitar | Success without memorizing | Forums, Groups
Notes: C, D, E, F, G, A, B
Triads of C major scale: C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim, tetrads: Bm7b5, G7
Triads of A minor scale: E, other: A
C blues scale C7, F7, G7
Chords over C major scale: C, G, F, Em, Am, Dm, Bdim
Chords over A minor scale: Am, Dm, E, G, C, F, Bdim
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