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Ask Alex about... Guitar Fretboard Diagram
 Key ideas:A good way to start learning the guitar fretboard diagram is to break it up into individual strings.
Most of the music we hear is based on major scales and on minor scales.
Major and minor scales are examples of diatonic, 7 note scales.
Diatonic scales are composed exclusively of whole tones and semitones.
When the root of any diatonic scale occurs again, an octave higher, after all 7 notes of the scale, the cycle closes.
The easiest way to play a diatonic scale is to play the white keys of a piano in ascending or descending order.
If you play all the diatonic tones of the C Major scale starting on each open string, you get the following modes:
1st string: Phrygian mode / mode 3.
2nd string: Locrian mode / mode 7.
3d string: Mixolydian mode / mode 5.
4th string: Dorian mode / mode 2
5th string: Aeolian mode / mode 6
6th string: Phrygian mode / mode 3
The interval of a semitone only occurs twice in our C Major scale and all of its modes: E-F and B-C.
All the frets we skipped are the same as the black keys of the piano.
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