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The Box Pattern - Pentatonic and Dorian Scales
Filed Under (Practice, Practice Session, Scales) by Frank on 02-08-2008
Tagged Under : Dorian, Pentatonic, Scales, The Box Pattern, The Box Position, TuxGuitar
As I said in a previous post, for scale practice, I’m working on learning the box pattern.
After going back and forth a little bit with Kenski (The Fillmore Five Project), I think I understand what the “Box Pattern” is. I’m sorry, but I’m not going to try to explain it right now, as I don’t think I could write something that in depth — and its not even a complicated topic…
Anyway, I’ve been learning the Box Pattern as defined here: http://www.myguitarsolo.com/sc_box.htm
I’ve already got the Pentatonic scale down; no problems there but I needed to do some work on the Dorian scale as MyGuitarSolo.com has it defined. I think I have it down, but I created some TuxGuitar files to practice with (for rhythm and timing practice).
I’ve placed the TuxGuitar files for download below:
The source, MyGuitarSolo.com, has the scales written out in a way to show you which notes on the fret board to play, they do not show an order or direction to play the notes in. The TuxGuitar files are my interpretation of what order to play the notes. (Of course, it doesn’t really matter what order you play the notes in and if you are not familar with what I’m talking about keep an eye out here — much more will be coming about this topic).
Below are images of the TuxGuitar files (click to enlarge):
A Pentatonic (Minor)
A Dorian
