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In figure 9, we have 2 stretch, 2 middle, and 2 ring patterns, going from the 6th to 1st string. In figure 10, we have 2 rings, 3 stretches, and 1 middle. If you know where any root note is for that position, you can derive the scale. Using the 3-note per string patterns, you can quickly build it out. This is far easier to implement than trying to step through the scale as whole and semitones, and far easier to memorize than every note in every map.
Here's the same table from above, but this time ordered so the notes keep ascending the scale in sequence. So the first (C D E) notes are <tt>-8-10-12-</tt>. The next notes are (F G A), which is <tt>-13-15-17-</tt> or, shifting down one octave, <tt>-1-3-5-</tt>. Since we have 3 notes per string, each row in the table is basically moving up a 4th (C to F is a fourth). Since the guitar is tuned in 4ths, this basically tells us what pattern to play on the next string to keep ascending the scale.
{|class="wikitable"
!Position !! Pattern !! Alt Name !! w/w !! w/h !! h/w !! T1 !! T- !! T2 !! Notes !! Tab
|-
| 8 || whole/whole || stretch ||x || || || o || || ||(C D E)|| <tt>-8--10-12-</tt>
|-
| 1,13 || whole/whole || stretch || x|| || || || o|| || (F G A)|| <tt>-1--3--5--</tt>
|-
| 7,19|| half/whole || middle || || || x|| || || o ||(B C D)|| <tt>-7--8--10-</tt>
|-
| 0,12 || half/whole || middle || || || x|| o || || ||(E F G) || <tt>-0--1--3--</tt>
|-
| 5,17 || whole/half || ring || || x|| || || || o || (A B C)|| <tt>-5--7--8--</tt>
|-
| 10 || whole/half || ring || ||x || || o || || ||(D E F)|| <tt>-10-12-13-</tt>
|-
| 3,15 || whole/whole || stretch || x || || || || || o || (G A B)|| <tt>-3--5--7--</tt>
|}
In other words, if we use 3 notes per position (or string), starting on the root note, we use the following patterns in order:
# whole/whole
# whole/whole
# half/whole
# half/whole
# whole/half
# whole/half
# whole/whole
And then we repeat. Look at the 8th position C major scale above. Patterns 1-6 match the ordered list.
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