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Scales Over Chords Learn How To Play The Right Scales Over Any Chord This ebook will teach how to play guitar scales across all the fretboard.

You will find more than 30 scale types, with color-coded diagrams, for 1 and 2 octaves patterns in different fingering configurations.

Also, in the ebook, you'll find 44 tables that will show you the scales that best match with any kind of chord.

Learn Guitar Scales All Over The Fretboard Knowing how to play a scale with different patterns you'll give incredible freedom on the fretboard; you'll be able to connect shapes all along the neck and will help you break the "4-frets-box" cage

Which Scale Should I Play Over This Chord?

The ebook will provide an answer to the most common doubts of lead guitar players. For each chord type, you'll find the scales that better fit with it.

This will help unleash your creativity and generate new ideas for your solos and melodic lines

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Scales Over Chords Learn How To Play The Right Scales Over Any Chord

by Giancarlo Facoetti FaChords Guitar © 2021

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About the author My name is Giancarlo Facoetti (Gianca), I'm a guitar teacher and a software engineer from Italy.

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Table of contents ●

Introduction - pag. 6

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Major scale patterns - pag. 1

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Major scale note names - pag. 5

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Minor scale patterns - pag. 6

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Minor scale note names - pag. 10

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Major Pentatonic scale patterns - pag. 11

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Major Pentatonic scale note names - pag. 15

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Minor Pentatonic scale patterns - pag. 16

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Minor Pentatonic scale note names - pag. 20

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Major Blues scale patterns - pag. 21

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Major Blues scale note names - pag. 25

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Minor Blues scale patterns - pag. 26

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Minor Blues scale note names - pag. 30

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Lydian scale patterns - pag. 31

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Lydian scale note names - pag. 35

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Mixolydian scale patterns - pag. 36

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Mixolydian scale note names - pag. 40

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Dorian scale patterns - pag. 41

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Dorian scale note names - pag. 45

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Phrygian scale patterns - pag. 46

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Phrygian scale note names - pag. 50

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Locrian scale patterns - pag. 51

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Locrian scale note names - pag. 55

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Harmonic Minor scale patterns - pag. 56

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Harmonic Minor scale note names - pag. 60

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Locrian #6 scale patterns - pag. 61

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Locrian #6 scale note names - pag. 65

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Ionian #5 scale patterns - pag. 66

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Ionian #5 scale note names - pag. 70

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Dorian #4 scale patterns - pag. 71

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Dorian #4 scale note names - pag. 75

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Phrygian Dominant scale patterns - pag. 76 FaChords Guitar ©2021 - www.fachords.com 2

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Phrygian Dominant scale note names - pag. 80

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Lydian #2 scale patterns - pag. 81

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Lydian #2 scale note names - pag. 85

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Super Locrian bb7 scale patterns - pag. 86

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Super Locrian bb7 scale note names - pag. 90

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Melodic Minor scale patterns - pag. 91

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Melodic Minor scale note names - pag. 95

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Dorian b2 scale patterns - pag. 96

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Dorian b2 scale note names - pag. 100

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Lydian Augmented scale patterns - pag. 101

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Lydian Augmented scale note names - pag. 105

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Lydian Dominant scale patterns - pag. 106

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Lydian Dominant scale note names - pag. 110

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Mixolydian b6 scale patterns - pag. 111

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Mixolydian b6 scale note names - pag. 115

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Aeolian b5 scale patterns - pag. 116

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Aeolian b5 scale note names - pag. 120

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Super Locrian scale patterns - pag. 121

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Super Locrian scale note names - pag. 125

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Whole-Tone scale patterns - pag. 126

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Whole-Tone scale note names - pag. 130

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Diminished scale patterns - pag. 131

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Diminished scale note names - pag. 135

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Half-Whole scale patterns - pag. 136

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Half-Whole scale note names - pag. 140

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Whole-Half scale patterns - pag. 141

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Whole-Half scale note names - pag. 145

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Scales to play over a major chord - pag. 146

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Scales to play over a maj7 chord - pag. 147

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Scales to play over a maj9 chord - pag. 148

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Scales to play over a maj11 chord - pag. 149

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Scales to play over a maj13 chord - pag. 150

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Scales to play over a 6 chord - pag. 151

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Scales to play over a add9 chord - pag. 152

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Scales to play over a 6/9 chord - pag. 153

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Scales to play over a maj7b5 chord - pag. 154

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Scales to play over a maj7#5 chord - pag. 155

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Scales to play over a maj7#11 chord - pag. 156

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Scales to play over a sus2 chord - pag. 157

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Scales to play over a sus4 chord - pag. 158

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Scales to play over a 7sus4 chord - pag. 159

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Scales to play over a minor chord - pag. 160

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Scales to play over a m7 chord - pag. 161

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Scales to play over a m9 chord - pag. 162

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Scales to play over a m11 chord - pag. 163

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Scales to play over a m13 chord - pag. 164

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Scales to play over a m6 chord - pag. 165

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Scales to play over a m(maj7) chord - pag. 166

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Scales to play over a m(maj9) chord - pag. 167

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Scales to play over a m7b5 chord - pag. 168

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Scales to play over a m7#5 chord - pag. 169

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Scales to play over a 7 chord - pag. 170

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Scales to play over a 9 chord - pag. 171

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Scales to play over a 11 chord - pag. 172

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Scales to play over a 13 chord - pag. 173

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Scales to play over a 7b5 chord - pag. 174

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Scales to play over a 7#5 chord - pag. 175

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Scales to play over a 7b9 chord - pag. 176

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Scales to play over a 7#9 chord - pag. 177

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Scales to play over a 7b5(b9) chord - pag. 178

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Scales to play over a 7#5(b9) chord - pag. 179

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Scales to play over a 9b5 chord - pag. 180

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Scales to play over a 9#5 chord - pag. 181

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Scales to play over a 13(#11) chord - pag. 182

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Scales to play over a 13(b9) chord - pag. 183

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Scales to play over a 11(b9) chord - pag. 184

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Scales to play over a aug chord - pag. 185

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Scales to play over a aug7 chord - pag. 186

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Scales to play over a dim chord - pag. 187

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Scales to play over a dim7 chord - pag. 188

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Introduction Scales are specific sets of notes ordered by pitch. We can both ascend and descend the scale depending on the feeling we want to invoke. In fact, the musical scale we choose will give the song it’s overall vibe. If you want an uplifting feeling you stick to a major key, for a sad or more contemplative feel we go to the minor key.

In this book you will find a huge variety of pentatonic, hexatonic, and heptatonic scales. It is quite a lot of information and overwhelming, but with routine practice it is accessible to all guitar players. With these scales you will be able to solo and play over any chord or chord progression.

How to Read Scale Diagrams Scale diagrams are simply graphic charts that show you where to place your fingers on the guitar. The six vertical lines match the strings on the guitar; in the standard tuning of EADGBE, the lowest line is the low E string and highest line is the high E string. In the charts below you can see the bass strings are larger than the treble strings.

Each vertical line represents the fret numbers, as you notice the space gets smaller as you move up the neck. As the tone increases it requires less movement to make big changes, thus giving us less space to work in. Much of our guitar solo and melody playing is done on the higher frets to stand out in the music.

The notes are color coded as to which degree of the scale they represent, and the first image of each scale represents all the tones across the fretboard. This is the most important visual to have when you first start practicing your scales. Take time to find these notes across the fretboard, play different intervals and just get an idea of the sound.

Playing scales is not all about strict exercises, riff a little and experiment.

After some fun it is time to work on scale exercises that will increase your dexterity and prepare you for switching keys faster. Following the image of all the notes on the FaChords Guitar ©2021 - www.fachords.com 6

fretboard, you will see specific scale diagrams with the root note on the 6th, 5th, and 4th strings (in this tuning the E, and, A, and D). These scales can be played starting with one of your four fingers, and the appropriate image is shown for each.

For many players starting on your index will be the easiest pattern, and each successive finger getting more difficult. If you truly wish to master scales you will make these patterns regular practice for all fingers, especially the pinky. One of the aspects of guitar mastery is using as little hand movement as possible. Knowing patterns for each finger will be a huge benefit down the road.

Another reason it is important to be aware of all these patterns is because you will need to switch keys. The numerous examples in this book are all in C, to play in a different key we will have to move the pattern up or down in the appropriate place. A C major scale with a root on the 6th string can be moved up two frets if we want to play D major.

Because you are learning guitar online you do not have a teacher there to make sure you are doing your mental homework and not always relying on graphs and charts. Making the effort to change keys will push you into the realm of actively thinking about your scale formulas and patterns.

How to Use Scales In the beginning many guitar players will learn the basic scales at various points across the fretboard. Scales are perfect for manual muscle memory, and they sure help grasp theory if you drill them into your head with constant practice. But there is a large gap between reading and playing these scales and using them in a realistic situation.

That is one reason we mentioned riffing on the scale when you first come across it. When the music starts playing, we don’t play a scale in ascending or descending order, we move around. In order for you to learn what scales sound good it is best to create your own melodies and assemble your own patterns.

If a piano player was giving us a background boogie woogie chord of C6 we could use the patterns across the fretboard to create an extra driving bass and melody. The low strings and frets of the guitar could play a 1, 3, 5, 6 (C, E, G, A) bass line while the higher octave frets could have a melody of the same notes. Right there you have a song going with your own patterns in the scale.

We can also take a common scale like the C minor blues to make quick and funky riffs; on the two highest strings at the 11th and 13th frets play the 1 and b3 together and then the 1 and 4. Add in the b7 or b5 for some variation, all you need is the right strum to get quite the groove.

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your 1 and 5. Basically, the genre of music you want to play will be based on certain scales and patterns.

This can be done by researching your genre or basic experimentation, which we help with by showing you all the scales that can be played with each chord.

Scales Over Chords Below each chord is an example of every scale that might sound good when played over it.

Of course, depending on the overall music context some will work better than others. The first few scales seem to fit as they share the same root note, but then it changes by showing the different modes.

This can seem confusing but remember our modes are just the same notes but starting at a different point. On these different keys you will see a "3 frets up" or "2 frets down" and this is telling you how many frets you need to move the pattern up or down. To play the A minor blues scale you find the C pattern and move back 3 frets (which will start you on A).

If you want to play in D Dorian, you will look at the C Dorian pattern and move it two frets up to D. That is why It is important to learn as many patterns as possible. That way when switching keys, you keep your mental math to a minimum.

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All the scales mentioned to play over a chord seem like a lot of info, when really, they are just the same notes in various orders. It is up to you to find which of those orders fit the music you are playing. Depending on your guitar skill level you will want to stick to the easier scales at first.

And while it can seem daunting to change keys, with practice it will come quick. If you have a song with a Bb major and you want to play in Phrygian mode? You simply move (4 frets) up in the major scale pattern to start on D. With the Circle of Fifths and these scales to play over chords, you nearly have all the music knowledge necessary for great guitar solos.

Pointers on Practicing Scales Keep it simple at first. Most of the genres of music you will be playing in use major, minor, or blues scales. Get an idea of what the more difficult modes are like before jumping right in. Some of the most complicated scales over big chords don’t appeal to the masses, so there is no rush for complexity.

The first and obvious is to spend time ascending and descending your scales up and down the neck, using the patterns given, or assembling your own. Also focus on playing different intervals. Especially those that are a third apart as those will often sound good together.

Another exercise is start on the first note and play four up, and then go back to the second note and play four notes up, and back again up the scale. This is great for scales and all four-finger movement.

Those types of drill practice are important, but you really need some sort of music to play along to as you learn. It is best to use some basic backing band software or a DAW to play along with when studying your scales. That is the best way to cement what scales will work over which chords.

While playing along to songs you like is ok, it doesn’t help one create and break into improvisation. Even if your goal is not to play improvised jazz it is still best to play your scales in a manner that will force you to think. If the backing instrument is anything more than drums be sure to know what key it is in. There are plenty of back band and digital audio software available to create practice sessions.

Stick to simple chord progressions at first like C-F-G. Start with your root on the 6th string at the 8th fret and play the 1 and 5 interval for a couple measures. Then move that 1-5 pattern back to the 5th fret for a couple measures, and then the third fret, before returning to the 8th fret. There you have simply moved along the root and fifth of each C, F, and G chord.

By putting a different scale over it we can explore different musical vibes. Adding a Dm and using Dorian mode will immediately change it from a hard rock to something more

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serious. Slowly advance in chord progressions or additions as you try the various scales mentioned.

If you are just playing plain scales a metronome is necessary, but with backing music you can make the tempo what works best for your skill level. With the right backing music software, you can turn scale practice into a fun time. All these scales, modes, and chords may seem like a lot of info, but with practice it will be a simple and quick reference guide

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Useful Links: Complete guide on scales and soloing https://www.fachords.com/guitar-scale/ Interactive guitar scale finder software https://www.fachords.com/scale-finder/ Complete guide to modes (relative vs parallel approach) https://www.fachords.com/guitar-modes-relative-parallel/ Beginner to advanced tutorials on fretboard and lead guitar https://www.fachords.com/guitar-lessons/

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