Guitar Scale Fretboard
See the major scale across the whole neck in any key. Pick a key and the entire fretboard is relabeled in movable-do — so you never lose your place, even outside the box you memorized.
Click any colored root to jump to its box position.
The five root positions
Every major scale on the guitar can be played through five movable box patterns. Each box is named after the string its root (Do) sits on — 2 Root, 5 Root, 3 Root, 1 Root, 4 Root — and they cycle up the neck in that order, tiling the whole fretboard. The top root of one box is the home root of the next, so the five shapes chain together seamlessly.
Because the patterns are movable, learning them once means knowing them in every key: find a comfortable root, call it Do, and the same five shapes apply. The hard part is what happens betweenboxes — real playing crosses box boundaries constantly. That's what the Connected view is for: the full neck labeled in one key, with each box's home root marked in its own color.
How to use it
- Pick a key — the whole neck is relabeled instantly. Try switching between Solfège, scale degrees, and real note names.
- Box view — isolate one position to memorize its shape. Step through the boxes with the arrows (or your ← → keys) and watch how they tile the neck.
- Click a colored root— jump straight to the box that lives around it. That's the real-world move: spot a well-placed root, make it home, and play the pattern.
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