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Here are the potential locations of the tonic notes for the major or minor scales, with which pattern to use when the tonic note is located in that placement. Notice for the major tonics, the location of the tonic in terms of the lowest note of the sequence determines which pattern to use. For example, when the lowest note ''is'' the tonic note, you use pattern 1. When the lowest-pitched tonic note doesn't occur until the 4th string, you use pattern 7.
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== Scale Maps ==
The Major and Natural Minor Scales can easily be reduced to '''7 different finger patterns''', that correspond to the player's position on the fretboard. The 7 positions are based on the ''position of the tonic note''.
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:::<small>''* usually unplayed double notes''</small>
=== In Plain English ===
So that's a lot of information. Let's break it down. There are 7 notes in the common major/minor scales. Any one of those notes can be the lowest note available for whatever position you are playing in - that gives us 7 different patterns of notes if we restrict ourselves to a 5-fret "box". ''In any of these 7 patterns, the tonic note will occur in 1 of 7 places:''
# 6th string, 1st note
=== Tonic Note Shapes ===
Here are the potential locations of the tonic notes for the major or minor scales, with which pattern to use when the tonic note is located in that placement. Notice for the major tonics, the location of the tonic in terms of the lowest note of the sequence determines which pattern to use. For example, when the lowest note ''is'' the tonic note, you use pattern 1. When the lowest-pitched tonic note doesn't occur until the 4th string, you use pattern 7.
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For open position C Major, the tonic is located at position 6 in the above pattern. So you'd use pattern 6. For 5th position C Major, the tonic is located at position 3; and we use pattern 3. For G Major, open position is pattern 3 and 5th position is pattern 7.