Scale Forms

[Jed]

Way back when, I was exposed to 7 (2 octave plus) scale forms. In various threads here and elsewhere these forms, subsets and variations of these forms are talked about using lots of various designations.

Is there some (possibly classical or Berklee blessed) designation for these forms so I can stop referring to these forms incorrectly? The forms I learned incorporated finger stretches between the index/middle and ring/pinky fingers only with no positional shifts allowed within any one form. In the key of "C" these forms cover from (string.fret - note):

low E.1 - F to high E.5 - A
low E.3 - G to high E.7 - B
low E.5 - A to high E.8 - C (includes D.9 - B)
low E.7 - B to high E.10 - D
low E.8 - C to high E.12 - E
low E.10 - D to high E.13 - F (includes A.14 - B & D.14 - E)
low E.12 - E to high E.15 - G

Any help would be appreciated, cheers.

Jed

[widdly widdly]

Since there are 7 patterns each starting on a different note of the major scale, you could refer to them by the modal names. Of course this is a little misleading because every pattern contains every mode.

Classical guitar players would probably refer to these by the position on the neck, for example C major in the open position, rather that to a particular pattern.

[Jed]

Thanks but referring to them as modes is what I was already doing and what I am trying to avoid. I did find a link at http://www.berkleeshares.com/guitar
I haven't gone through the file yet but it doesn't look as easy as just calling out the key and the lowest / highest notes.

cheers,

Jed

[Los Boleros]

Reffering to the finger patterns as mode names is not correct.

As a teacher <i found tht this method worked.

<lets play the C major scale starting with your pinky on the C note of the low E string.

<lets play the A minor scale starting with your index finger on the G note of the low E string.

<lets play the E minor scale starting with the index finger on the B note of the low E string.

<i don´t think there are any real names for the different fingering possibilities. This would not be an issue on the piano since there is only one way to finger a scale within an octave. The guitar has six courses and it opens up alot of different voicings for the same thing but musically, they are the same thing.

[Jed]

After reading over the Berklee method is seems that the classic method of just caling out the key and the position uses the fewer words. But I think your string / note / finger combination is more widely used and more flexible overall given the 6 available courses.

cheers,

Jed