The scales most guitar solos are made of, drawn across the whole neck with the roots in red, plus the five position boxes that connect them. Pick any key from the menus and every chart redraws, or grab the PDF for the wall.
Pentatonic and blues scales with position boxes, major and minor scales, and all seven modes. Letter size, 1338 KB, free.
1 b3 4 5 b7 · A C D E G
The first scale most guitarists learn: five notes, no half steps to trip over, and it fits over rock, blues, and pop in the same key. The five boxes below cover the whole neck.
1 2 3 5 6 · C D E G A
The brighter twin of the minor pentatonic (same shapes, different root), heard in country, folk, and major-key rock solos.
1 b3 4 b5 5 b7 · A C D Eb E G
The minor pentatonic plus the flat 5, the blue note. Slide through it rather than landing on it.
The minor pentatonic. It has five notes, no awkward half steps, and it works over most rock, blues, and pop songs in the same key. Learn position 1 first (the box that starts on the root on the low E string), then add the boxes on either side of it.
Five overlapping boxes that together cover the whole neck. Each box has two notes per string, so your fingers stay in one place. Position 1 starts on the root on the low E string; the others sit above it in order, and the last one also lives twelve frets down, just below position 1.
The nut is on the left and the high e string is on top, like looking down at the guitar in your lap. Each dot is a scale note; red dots are the root. Fret numbers run along the bottom. Switch Labels to Intervals to see each note as a scale degree instead of its name.
Yes. The PDF has every scale on this site in its default key on letter-size pages, and each page prints cleanly on its own. The charts are free to print and share for personal use and lessons.
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