In episode 87 of the guitar music theory podcast, I answer email questions about scale patterns, pickup configurations, amps, recording yourself, and more. Greetings, guitar engineers. Welcome to the guitar music theory

podcast. I am your host Desi Cerna and today I'm going to answer some email

questions. I've got several great going to answer some email questions.

I've got several great questions to answer,

questions about scale patterns, pick up configurations,

amps, recording yourself, and more.

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video course now you can click on the link in the podcast show notes. All right, let's dive in. So the first question is, do you teach, this is directed toward me,

does he, do you teach major scale patterns to fit with the cage system or do you teach

three note per string scale patterns?

So let me answer that question, but before I do, let me back up and explain some of those terms in case you may not be familiar with them. So when it comes to playing the major scale

on guitar, when we play scales in guitar, they form patterns on the fret board so we visualize these

patterns and we work on the fingerings and and playing in different positions

using different patterns.

And the notes in the major scale are scattered all over the fretboard, and there's different ways

that you can form patterns, there's different ways you can break up the fretboard in order to be able to cover the whole fret board with major scales.

And the two most common ways that you do it are either a group of five patterns or a group of seven patterns and the group of seven patterns have three notes per string.

So let me just start with the three note per string patterns. I'm in the key of

G here. So I'm starting on G on string six fret three and so if I start on this g and I climb up the major scale

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