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by sonar_un 2936 days ago
This looks fantastic. Though some labels would be nice. It's difficult to find out what all the colors and the numbers mean. Adding an audio library would be a nice addition.
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R is the Root note of the scale while the numbers are notes in the full scale. A pentatonic is a regular major/minor scale with 2 notes removed. The blues scales are the pentatonic with one note added. The colors are simply a way to highlight a geometric pattern - learn to play the patterns (and bounce around within them) and how they chain together to form various scales over the whole neck. Explaining some of these things is more of a theory lesson than something you can just add a few labels, and the colors for the patterns don't have actual names at all AFAIK.

I agree this could be expanded on in some ways.

Edit - wait, the colors are not just patterns, there are common chord forms that fit over them as well.