3 Note Per String Major Scale Patterns - Deep Dive

3 Note Per String Major Scale Patterns - This week Deep Dive into the hidden patterns that make up the 3 notes per string major scales on the guitar.

I show how every position can be broken down into the same 3 simple building blocks, then how to use each of these building blocks to be able to find and play any key anywhere on the neck of the guitar.

[robinmartini]

Excellent video, so clear and logical. Anybody learning guitar will profit hugely from this approach.

[LostMountainRestoration]

Best 3NPS video EVER. Perfect. Thanks.

[masterbuilder]

Ive now watched 3 of your videos and not only have i had one light come on, but every light in

[MohaiminulIslamra]

I suddenly got enlightened! With this and my ear I can now go anywhere on the fretboard and connect! You're the best <3

[seamanjive]

So glad to have found your channel. This 3nps approach has really worked for me - I'll be working thru your content, thanks for all your work

[alexbilyk]

This approach definitely clicks with me. I never quite figured why in caged system they picked just those 5 chords, given we have 7 notes in the major scales. I also find the approach demoed here more self-consistent in its rule set and quite a bit more algorithmic in nature. Remembering one pro once saying that he had learned to play as a child in every key from every position on the fret board and I could not quite map the meaning of that comment to the caged system or any other way of thinking about it. This video has answered a boatload of questions I've been carrying in my head for over a year. Thank you so much.

[rowdy]

Absolutely brilliant!! I am a connoisseur of sorts in this area, being entirely YouTube taught, and this is far and away the best intro to 3NPS and the most immediately useful tool you’ll come across! Incredible! Thank you so much!

[jmchessor]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Did i say thank you? Now I get the 3ps system. I have actually used that same principle to help understand how the pentatonic scale fits together.

[DocTravis]

This is amazing. Thank you for sharing this information. At first, I was having trouble understanding and then it clicked. This has really opened up the fretboard for me.

[ma]

Penny has dropped thanks to you Steve. Not everyone's brain operates the same re breaking things down. Thanks so much! You've made my month!

[scottjones]

Super video. So useful. I use the 7 6nps (2 string shapes) so never have to think about phantom 7th string etc, but can see all of those in your way of just three three string shapes. Nice to see yet another perspective.

[mulqueen]

thanks. this gave me a bit of a an eureka moment

[ourclarioncall]

Wow, this has to be in the top 100 useful pieces of guitar tuition on YouTube . Well done, great discovery, thanks for sharing

There are so many things to discover when you start exploring. I was having a lot of fun analysing different triad shapes and their inversions that occur depending on how the strings are tuned.

I noticed the triad shapes change because of the tuning of the strings in three main combinations of three strings - 3 strings tuned with 4ths gap, 3 strings tuned with a 4th then a 3rd, and the opposite a 3rd then a 4th. This is just simple and easy things to observe but I would never have spent any time going into depth looking at this until I went on a voyage of discovery .

It began by trying to develop and improve legato strangely enough, then I removed two of the strings so I could play with a one octave scale and a drone note .

Then I discovered a really easy and fluid way to play greensleeves mixing chords and melody with ease because of the triad choice of which there are multiple options, some better than others.

Then I put the two strings I took off back on and tuned them so it alternates from a third to fourth, third to fourth back to third. This gives me a really interesting, easy and logical set of notes to play with. The E A and D strings have the same fingering as D G and B, so for example a major scale plays beautifully and cleanly from the first octave on the top three strings into the second octave on the D G and B And obviously all the triad shapes are the same

There is also a second set of patterns that repeat, everything you play on A D and G is the same on G B and E

I have also abandoned my plectrum and am working with my fingers and the guitar is on the left leg too in more of a classical position for the legato . I am going to try having the strings tuned the same but Starting with 4ths instead of 3rds. So at the moment the guitar is tuned 3/4/3/4/3 but am going to try 4/3/4/3/4. I did not like the triad shapes with three strings a fourth apart . Well, what i mean is I did not find the notes of a melody fitted very well around these shapes, although maybe I could revisit and keep experimenting, but the 3rd and 4th interval over three strings brought the triads together in more comfortable shapes with easier accessible scale notes. Sorry for the long ramble, it was a lot of fun and feel like I’m on the threshold of making new progress and a more satisfying method of playing that integrates chords melodies and improvisiation

[fattyz]

I was looking for this exactly having spent lockdown memorising the modes, which I did. During which I finally heard the roots and started playing to them, along with memorising the pattern. Then I wanted to move vertically. This is it. Thx!

[stevieboy]

That's the cleverest intro to the modes I've ever seen.

[garygowland]

That was an hour. Watched it about 3 times. Very cool thanx

[damien]

You got me binge watching this series. Went to the connecting the shapes video first before skipping back here.
Had to hook up my printer, sitting with highlighter in hand, I'd worked out where the roots were in fragments two and three, based off fragment one before you mention them at 11:04. So at least I'm getting there.
Also wondering if my neighbours would mind terribly if I plugged in my amp at 02:00 am? Think I'll save part 2 for tomorrow, or to be more accurate, a bit later today.

[mojo-hand]

Very Helpful - Thank you! I just Subscribed :-)

[jacobsmith]

Instead of three fragments, I view 3NPS as a cycle of 7 strings. Each string within the cycle corresponds to one of the 7 modes and is either whole step whole step (which I call the "major" pattern as it forms a M3 interval and is repeated across two strings in Ionian), half step whole step (the "Locrian" pattern), or whole step half step (the "minor" pattern). I can use these patterns to form two-string fragments for each mode - for example Dorian mode is a minor and then a major pattern across two strings. This has become extremely useful in identifying what mode and key I'm playing in just from seeing a few notes on the fretboard. I would love to see you do a video applying 3NPS to modal playing and key identification

[williamoriordan]

great lesson i got the ideas now to practice thank you very much