MAJOR SCALE Guitar Patterns - How to REALLY know them

Why not just use the a form for all the notes? Why 5 patterns?

So you’re stuck on how to work the cage system into your practicing. I’ll show you how.. using your musical theory background etc… 😮

How do I read the chart for the scales im so confused

I watched this video, took notes and am happy to say I know the major scale back and forth. Really awesome plan. I use the pentatonic as a skeleton to speed up and down the neck and fill in as I go, truly a worthwhile video.

This tutorial literally opened my mapping mind!
Thank you!

Thank God, I found a great channel and it doesn’t have an American yelling excitedly at me. Thank you for your measured, gentle and easy to listen to tone!

Man! I've been searching for "this" video for the last 3 months. So glad I found you! Thank you sir, liked and subbed!

This is a great video but you missed one important thing. You briefly mentioned it but didn't show how to play these in different keys. You should explain how the numbers on these patterns will change depending on the key.

I can see how some are confused because they might think the "A Form" you show here at the first 6 frets can be applied to any key, lets say G major. They might think ok in that A Form pattern the G just becomes my 1, A 2 and so on. Unfortunately that's not true and they will find out when their 7 ends up being F instead of F#. Why? Because you only showed them these patterns in C major. It would be helpful I think if you just showed the same patterns/forms applied to different keys. In the case of G major they would want to use "E Form" on the first 5 frets with 3rd fret low E string G note being the 1 but that isn't very clear in this video. Going from left to right on the fretboard, the CAGED order for C major is AGEDC but for G major it's EDCAG.

Just trying to help. You make great content that has helped me a lot!

I really like this mapping as compared to the "7 positions" you will often find. These make more sense based on chord forms, and map directly to the 5 pentatonic positions. If you know how these connect to each other, you get the overlapping positions from the "7 positions" automatically, in an easier way to visualize and map to chords!

This makes so much sense, thank-you 👏

It's about time I got into the music theory. After learning the 5 pentatonic scales these are great to learn after by adding a few notes. It's not so much to take in all at once and you can start playing almost straight way once you have each box down. Just got to start mixing up and down the fret board now. Thank you very much

Excellent! I have pretty much mastered this after almost a year of playing these consistently. It's awesome to have that kind of freedom on the fretboard. However, turning that into melodic statements to match a song is still time consuming. I guess there is no way out of having to pick out and learn the melody for each song. One thing I have noticed though is that while I was learning these, the ear becomes trained. Your ear and the fingers tend to work together almost subconsciously. That's a great help! Thanks Jarod.

Thank you, I got a question , what do the numbers mean on the scale chart?

incredible channel! Thanks!

Do you have a video that actually shows us how to start or play the major scales?

Best on YT. All the others are just not giving you the basics. Don’t learn the 5 note scales, learn this and subtract notes if you want.

For A form, what is the 3rd note you are playing on b string? If I start the same pattern for C scal, this note is giving A#, which is not a C scale note... is my understanding Correct?

I thought positions and patterns are different things

Wow! Long time player, mostly strumming and some picking. Finally in the process of learning scales/patterns and some theory. Currently taking face to face lessons and was hesitant about scrolling on YT because I did not want it to interfere with my lessons and send me down another rabbit hole; then I rolled onto this Gem. Jared, thank you for this comprehensive lesson. I may have to dig into your other material. Hoping someday this will all makes sense and I will start to see improvement in my guitar learning journey. This instructional video really helps.

Great lesson! Thank you!

the calm vibe is so conducive to learning. 🖖

Its all about the mode patterns 😂

This vídeo is so helpful, but I can't play other key than C with these partten, it doesn't match 😭 Can anyone help me??

Adore your lessons, simply amazing!
By the way, is your tele custom shop, if not what model is it? Thanks in advance.

Thanks!

i can play and I am not following the written layout with what he plays. He is on the 6 th fret a lot and 1st pattern is only there 1 time.

what you play in guitar is different from what you show in the major scale pattern that's why it's confusing

This looks easy for someone who knows what they’re doing and what to look for… yes you use the A pattern for the C major scale but what’s the pattern if I want to start in E major, G major, or A major?? What’s it look like or how does it move to suit the key? How are you determining what the patterns looks like? Can you post an example in a PDF or video?

Excellent review and lesson guidance. NOW these make sense! After 5 months restarting guitar, I’ve tried different lessons on scale patterns and a bit confounded on how to start/practice and why! This went a long way to locking in the why and making sense of it all. Great practice guidance and throughly appreciated. Professional presentation skills too.

Now this is C major . How do I move the patterns when I am playing in a different key? Let's say I want to play in E major? How will I move the patterns to fit this ? Like you started with A pattern for C major ,what should be my first pattern for E major? Any easy way to determine this instantly?

Very interesting sharing!👍🛎 wish you success!

These lessons always tie-up the loose ends with missing skills to practice. Thanks

Not a bad lesson but it could be improved by a lot if the graphics were dynamic, showing what it is your playing on the fret board on the graphics as you're playing it.

Is there any stipulation on which finger to land on the root notes that economizes or makes fretting more efficient? And thanks, your lessons have single-handedly instilled confidence and belief in myself, and pushed me across the line to take the next step as a serious learner after a gap of over 15 years when I didn't have a guitar or even touched one.

I haven’t solidified.

You are a good teacher but you talk too much instead of shpwing practicaly ,you finshed their time by talking

I’ve been playing a while but don’t like learning theory. I’m using this to sort my sh*t out and finally stop not being able to know where to play solo’s when music is being played in certain keys. I’m liking this dude so thanks for the help

such a nice content...
What I really appreciate : the calm tone ...
No overplayed YT content excitment.
Thanks.

Jared it has taken me about 2-3 weeks to get all these patterns down smoothly as a daily practice. Should I continue now with your “how to master guitar scales” video? I see that both have different intensions but does the order in which we learn the content matter. Anyone with an opinion on this: feel free to answer. Thx.

Excellent ! I have a definitely 👍 different outlook on scales patterns,I've been playing for 45 years. Thank you 😊.

Is the scale form you are teaching above the Major or as I have learned it the Mixolydian?

I've been watching your videos in this scale series. They are massively helpful and well explained! In each one, you recommend "improvising targeting the root." To do so, is it okay to just take songs we like and improvise soloing over them using the scale forms/patterns that are appropriate for the song?

Hi Jared your videos are the best.
would it be possible to create a PDF for this major scale topic that would be great

This doesn't help with the integration of the different patterns. When you can do that I feel that's when you'll REALLY feel completely confident on the fretboard.

Great lesson, Jared 👍 Thank You 🙏🦘 just starting to learn the guitar more serious and learning to familiarise myself with the Major scale on the fretboard.

Hi Jared, I have been following your scale series for the last couple of days and would to let you know that this morning it finally clicked for me. I can now see how the 5 patterns fit on the fretboard. I’ll definitely be buying you a drink 🍺🍺 or two. Thank you 🙏. It feels like when I took the training wheels off my might many years ago. 👍👍👍
The thing that helped me the most was the root to root idea. Very useful!

Do you by chance have the same scale diagrams with the finger numbering instead of the scale degree? I would find that very helpful. Thanks.

Great vid but you went too fast when demonstrating. If you could go note by note slowly that’d help a lot because I’m not even sure where you started. Was it on the one ? Or ...

C'mon guys this channel deserves a million subscribers :) This lesson has further helped me to connect the 5 shapes over the fretboard.