Discuss how major and minor pentatonic shapes map identically on guitar, linking modes, intervals, and fretboard visualization, with tips for moving beyond CAGED boxes.
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17 hand-picked diagrams, articles and videos for guitar, each with a short summary so you can choose where to start.
Provide a simple online guitar fretboard diagram creator with SVG export and mode examples, useful for mapping scales and chords.
Provide an interactive circle of fifths that lets you set tonic and mode to instantly display the seven diatonic chords for any key or mode.
Analyze why the Am–E–C–D–F–Am–B7–E progression works, touching on chromatic bass motion, modal mixture, and functional harmony.
Explores practicing scales through the circle of fifths across modes and asks for additional effective exercises and strategies for learning scales and intervals.
Seeks community recommendations on essential music-theory and reading topics a sidelined guitarist should study with their teacher.
Explain the melodic minor scale and its seven modes, with an overview of their use in jazz improvisation and how to start applying them.
Discuss Holdsworth’s idea that Dorian is the most fundamental scale due to interval symmetry, with links to visualizations and further resources for guitarists.
Covers how to play and distinguish between the seven musical modes.
Appears to cover an intuitive approach to understanding musical modes.
Share a free web-based scales and modes cheat sheet with a guide video, helping players visualize relationships and quickly reference modal and scale patterns.
Seeks feedback on a fretboard method for playing major scales and modes anywhere, plus guidance on interval shapes, position shifts, and potential pitfalls.
Offers a free interactive fretboard tool to visualize scales and modes for any tuning and up to eight strings.
Teach a two-shape fretboard visualization to connect pentatonic, blues, major/melodic/harmonic scales and common arpeggio patterns across the neck, with practice guidance.
Appears to cover a graphic representation of musical modes.
Share diagrams mapping relative and parallel modes across the guitar fretboard with mnemonics to visualize connected modal shapes and relationships.
Provides an infographic-style overview of the Dorian mode for guitar and appears to include positions and pointers for improvising and soloing.
