Remember: I make all of my diagrams from the Player's Perspective:
How you would look down at your fretboard and see the shapes.
There's no reason to make you flip the shapes around in your head, and memorize them in orientations other than what you see when you look down at your instrument!
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Mi Standard Tuning! EADGBE/MiLaReSolSiMi
But in Re Tuning/1 Whole Step down from Standard Mi
DGCFAD/ReSolDoFaLaRe
Understanding and memorizing the order of the tonos and where tonos can be found is the first step to learning where you can place the same chord shapes to get all 12 Major and Minor Chords, as well as for scales too!
In Re Tuning (1 Whole Step Down for each String from Mi Standard), all of your notes, chords, and scales can be played exactly the same way, they will just be shifted 2 frets UP from where they are in Mi Tuning. If you use a capo on the 2nd fret in Re Tuning, you can just pretend everything past that (from Fret 3 and beyond) is Standard Tuning.
Even though escalas are very important for Lead Guitar/Requinto, you also want to make sure you know all the basic Armonia chord shapes as well as Requinto specific chords.
These shapes and patterns work for any tono! Where you start the scale (The Red Closed Shape/1st Scale Degree) determines the escala you are playing. In this example this is the Re Mayor Escala (In Mi Tuning)
Super important for adornos in Campirano music! Usually what is utilized at the end of requintos. If you are tuned in Re, whatever scale shape you play will actually be 1 whole step lower. For example: the Open Mi escala would actually be Re, Open Fa would be Mib, Open Sol would be Fa, etc. Learn the order of the tonos!
These universal Major Scale Patterns work on any tono, any fret. This is why its so important to learn your fretboard and the order of the tonos! With that and this, you will know all 12 Major scales easily in multiple spots!
These next 3 Shapes will be used alot for Armonia and lower string adornos and Pasadas!
These next 2 Shapes are mostly going to be used for Requinto specific adornos, on the higher strings!
Very Useful Shapes and Patterns to use over certain Minor Chords, great for Tumbado and Belico Stuff!
(They're the exact same thing as the Major Keys starting from the vi chord... but go ahead and give yourself 12 more patterns and formulas to memorize)
These scale shapes will help you learn exactly what you can play over specific chords in a key or in a progression! Your adornos will harmonize super well over the right chords and you'll sound like a pro.
Make sure you know your major scales well, and read all the info! This is not a beginner friendly topic.
I list them here in order of the Diatonic Chords of a Major Key, but there are many ways we can go about learning these Mode Shapes. If you like classic songs with mostly major chords, learn the Ionian, Lydian and Mixolydian first.
If you like the newer tumbado/belico stuff with more Minor Chords, learn the Aeolian, Dorian and Phrygian shapes.
You should still learn them all regardless though!