Guitar Hacks: 3NPS Scales, Chords and Arpeggios

Thirteen scales, three patterns each, and every chord inside them.

Part one is the scales. Seven three-note-per-string positions per scale reduced to three, for thirteen scales, with the economy picking that makes them usable at speed. Interval diagrams throughout, so every pattern moves to any key.

Part two is the half most scale books leave out. Thirteen scales with seven degrees each gives ninety-one chords, and that number is where most players stop — knowing a scale exists without ever finding out what is in it.

But count those ninety-one properly and there are only seven seventh-chord types and four triad types among them. Eleven shapes account for eighty-eight of the ninety-one sevenths and eighty-nine of the ninety-one triads. Learn eleven shapes, learn which degree of which scale produces which one, and ninety-one chords stops being a list to memorise.

What's in part two:

• 33 arpeggio diagrams — eleven chord types, rooted on the 6th, 5th and 4th strings
• A playable voicing for each of the eleven types, as chord boxes with the intervals marked in the dots
• Examples of finding the chord tones inside a scale pattern you already know, without moving your hand
• Harmony tables for all thirteen scales, sevenths and triads, degree by degree
• The three chords that don't fit the system, and why

50 pages, PDF. No sheet music, no backing tracks, no pentatonics.

If you already have the free edition, part one is that book. Part two is the new material.

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