Guitar fretboard
Scales · Notes · Shapes
Full fretboard
A · RootScale noteEb · Blue note
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The five positions
Read each diagram high E to low E, top to bottom. Shared edge notes connect neighboring shapes.
Scale
The blueprint: an interval formula that chooses which notes belong.
Key
The anchor: the root note that gives a scale its tonal home.
Position
The movable grid: five overlapping shapes that carry the same notes along the neck.
One chord. Five shapes.
Follow the roots through C → A → G → E → D. Your familiar E and A barre forms are two stops in the same loop.
CAGED fretboard
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Root · 1Third · 3Fifth · 5Other scale note