Trevor Wong Music

8 Major Scale Patterns For FACGCE Tuning (Guitar Tabs)

Added 2019-08-06 03:08:39 +0000 UTC

Please see attached for the document

Ok so tonight I made an attempt to put something together that is similar to my 6 major scale patterns document for standard tuning but for FACGCE instead. However, one thing that I quickly ran into was the fact that it is basically impossible to play two octave major scales in FACGCE without using massive position shifts.

So, to offer a solution to that, I've decided to just create 8 groupings of notes that contain all of the notes that are diatonic to the key of C within certain fingering positions. I figure this will be useful for at least outlining which notes are available for you to play in the tuning. It's unfortunate that I can't map some ergonomic scale shapes but that's the trade off with playing in an alternate tuning.

As for how this system works, it's the same as my "6 major scale" pattens system. Each patterns shape / orientation is relative to the finger that is used to play the root note.

Anyways, good luck, learning these. I think these patterns are pretty easy to learn so even after a few runs of these you guys should be pretty fluent in knowing which notes are available for you to use in FACGCE.