Find the Major Scale, Full Neck: All Five Shapes as One
Find the Major Scale, Full Neck: All Five Shapes as One
The short answer: Find Major Scale — Full Neck removes the training wheels: instead of one position, you find every note of the major scale across the whole fretboard, all five CAGED positions fused into one. It is how separate boxes become a single connected map of the neck.
What the game is
You are given a key and the entire fretboard, and you find every major-scale note on it. There is no single position to hide in — you have to see how the shapes overlap and hand off to each other.
What it teaches
- How the five position shapes overlap into one continuous scale.
- Seeing the neck as one scale rather than five separate boxes.
- The connections that let you shift position in the middle of a phrase.
Why it's cool
The leap from "I know my five boxes" to "I see the whole neck" is exactly this challenge. When the positions connect, you stop being trapped in one area and start playing the guitar as one instrument.
Where to start
Clear Find Major Scales first, then read how to connect CAGED shapes and one scale all over the neck.