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Transposing the scale forms to other keys

So if you were going to transpose all of these scale forms to A major, the lowest form on the neck would be the one below.

|-1-|-2-|---|-4-|---|
|---|-1-|---|-3-|---|
|---|-1-|---|-3-|-4-|
|---|-1-|---|-3-|-4-|
      |
     2nd fret

Then the next position up would be this.

|-1-|---|-3-|-4-|
|-1-|---|-3-|-4-|
|-1-|-2-|---|-4-|
|---|-2-|---|-4-|
      |
     5th fret

Again you want to just think of these 5 scale forms as pieces of a puzzle. Learn how these pieces connect. If you are playing in one position, you want to know what the next higher and next lower form of the scale would be.

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