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The unique color coding not only shows you where to place your fingers ... you get to see how each note FUNCTIONS in the pattern.

Here are the most common scales in Western popular music. You will come to find that there is a seperate scale for each chord in the song so it won't take you too long to bump into all of these somewhere. There are also a lot more fingerings for each scale than most folks realize. Though it takes longer to REALLY understand scale dynamics on the fretboard, the result is total FREEDOM on the neck. You could eventually play any scale, in any key, anywhere on the fretboard ... and that opens you up for some really awesome soloing!

Here's how the color coding works. It's based on the colors of the spectrum. Think back to Physics or Art class. Remember ROY G. BIV? That name spells the colors of the rainbow in order ... 1 RED ... 2 ORANGE ... 3 YELLOW ... 4 GREEN ... 5 BLUE ... 6 INDIGO ... 7 VIOLET ... so the red dot is always the root note of the scale.

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•	IONIAN MODE The Major Diatonic Scale is the backbone of Western Music.

•	MIXOLYDIAN MODE Just might be the second most common scale in Western music ... but nobody gets it!

•	LYDIAN MODE The 4th Diatonic Mode. It's in almost every song you play!

•	AEOLIAN MODE Also known as Natural Minor ... the central minor scale.

•	DORIAN MODE Probably the 2nd most common minor scale.

•	PHRYGIAN MODE That opening half step can sound odd until you hear it in context.

•	LOCRIAN MODE Meant to go with Half Diminished chords. They're wicked moody and underutilized.

•	MELODIC MINOR Can produce some wonderful, emotionally charged melodies.

•	HARMONIC MINOR A very important scale in the structuring of Minor Key music.

•	MAJOR PENTATONIC Simple, open sounding scales that drive a lot of pop music.

•	MINOR PENTATONIC The dark cousin to the Major Pentatonic and basis for many Rock guitar solos.

•	BLUES SCALE Take Minor Pentatonic and add a couple of additional notes.

•	WHOLE TONE SCALE One of the SYMETRICAL scales and often used with Augmented chords.

•	DIMINISHED SCALE Another Symetrical scale often played over Diminished chords.

•	LYDIAN b7 One of the Melodic Minor Modes and a scale with an added zing.

•	MIXOLYDIAN b13 Another of the Melodic Minor modes and a very useful scale.

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