Nice lesson to get inside the Major scale and its chords

[AntLockyer]

http://www.bassology.net/lessons/lesson3.html

I'm a big fan of Anthony's teaching methods. This lesson is something I've been working on for the last few days and has helped me on many levels.

I used to struggle to remember what chords I was supposed to play, I'd learned parrot fashion that II V I in C major was Dmin7, G7, Cmaj7 etc.

Now having this different scale shape (not the easiest to play if you just wanted to play the scale) plus all the shapes within and just remembering the major minor minor major major minor diminished means I can reliably know where on the neck (in that 1 position) the chord tones are without having to know all the notes in it or how to get them.

Some might think that is a short cut and pattern based stuff is stupid but honestly it is in my fingers and requires no thought. I don't think it is a substitution for knowing the actual notes but it is a short cut to playing unconsciously.