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Tagged As: Guitar Scale Tablature

Question:
I'm looking for a web site that will have tablature of all of the major diatonic scales for the guitar in all 7 shapes. This tab must have the scales listed out as 3 notes per string. It would also be nice to find minor/major pentatonics tabbed out 2 notes per string. One other criteria is that the tab should be displayed on the type of tab that looks like the fretboard layout. If anyone knows where I can find such tab, please post it.

Answer:
Try out Rick's site.  He has exactly what you're looking for. http://www.rickdelsavio.com/lessons.html Not bad but I need to add some additional criteria because this isn't exactly what I'm looking for. Rick's site has handwritten tabs. I can write handwritten tabs out my self. I'd prefer something that's graphics oriented. Secondly, the tab on this site lists each shape according to the mode that can be associated with it. I think this confuses students. Modes are merely scales played starting on a different note unless their tonal center of the song is different than the key signature. So when just practicing scales, I find that it works best to think of all 7 shapes of just that, shapes of the C major scale. Thinking in terms of modes can come later. And being that you can play all 7 modes with any one shape, this is another reason that I don't like the modal names associated with different shapes. Any other suggestions? Take any major scale. Work out where the notes lie on the guitar fretboard. Draw your own guitar fretboard diagram and write the notes in yourself. It may take a bit of thought & work -- but you can then easily apply that knowledge for any other major scale anywhere on the neck. Knowing where the notes are on a guitar neck comes in very useful. It’s worth teaching yourself this. From the other posts it looked like he's a guitar teacher looking for stuff for students so I'm sure he can do it *himself*.  But if nothing it out there in web-land, I guess it's time to fire up the old music editor program and make what you want.   Simple TAB can be done with ASCII characters in a monospace font.