Putting The Two Patterns Together

We saw before that we can use two different patterns to play the F major scale:  the "F" pattern starting on the zero fret, and the "C" pattern starting on the fifth fret.  Let's look at both those patterns on the fretboard, and how they relate to each other. 
 
 
 
And you'll have a similar pair of patterns for the major scales in any other key.  Of course, the fingering for the "F" pattern scale will be different when you move this pattern up the fretboard for another key:  it'll be fingered like we did with the G scale.  Remember that? 

For example, move everything up three frets and you'll have an Ab (or G#) scale: 
 
 
 
Just as there is a "C" pattern above the "F" pattern, there is also an "F" pattern above the "C" pattern.  Consider the C major scale:  if you take the "F" pattern and move it to the seventh fret, it becomes a C major scale.  So let's put both versions of the C major scale on the fretboard. 
 
 
 
Notice that there's more space from the "C" pattern to the "F" pattern than there was from the "F" pattern to the "C" pattern on the previous figure  (four frets up rather than two).  The spacing makes sense when you see that, in the last figure, the note "Re" is on the "A" string fifth fret, so you're just going up the scale (La, Ti, Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So) on that "A" string. 
 
 
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