Development of the Major Types
in all the roots

If you have studied correctly the five models of type, you are ready to face the most difficult part. We must organize the types into one root, therefore transposing the fingerings along the entire keyboard. Later we will also have to use this system on all the roots. You will see that once you have learned the procedure, it will become more simple and intuitive.
The rule that determines the types within a root requires that they are positioned on the fretboard so that the roots fit with the frets and the strings. For example, if you try to find the position of the root for type 4 in C major, you will have to verify the strings relative to the roots that, in this case, are on the sixth, third and first strings. After that you will look for the C notes on the fretboard of the interested strings. If necessary, you can consult the fretboard guide to find the notes. This is surely the best system for studying, and you can rack your brain using your strengths to get to the final result.
Continuing with the reading you will find everything you need to learn to manage the scales over the entire fretboard. The choice is yours to opt either for a system where you have to think about the notes, strings and scales, then verifying the exactness of the results, or go directly to these pages, where the scales are visualized in the various roots along the entire fretboard.

Development of the Type
in the root of
C major

We begin, as usual, with the root of C major, distributing the various types over the fretboard to cover the entire extension. Every fingering proposed here has already been presented in other roots. Practice playing one fingering at a time, playing very slowly and using alternate picking. Memorize every type before moving on to the next one, and observe the correlations between the name of the notes with their position on the fretboard. This is also a good system to learn the notes on the entire neck. The last type that you will see is type 1 an octave above (in the fourteenth position). As you will see, the fingerings repeat after having developed a complete octave on the fretboard, covering its entire length.

The next page incluces a series of exercises that combine to the various fingerings in the root of C major. A good study method consists of alternating the execution of the types proposed in this page, with various time divisions and metronome speeds, until you have memorized the types.

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