Perfectly Aligning Guitar Frets and Strings with Notes on a Staff

Visually grasp notes and their fretboard positions on the same picture

Here is the chart to start with:
C Major Scale on Guitar

Notes:	C, D, E, F, G, A, B	Buy the book - many more charts
Triads of C major scale:	C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim, tetrads: Bm7b5, G7
Triads of A minor scale:	E, other: A
C blues scale	C7, F7, G7
Chords over C major scale:	C, G, F, Em, Am, Dm, Bdim
Chords over A minor scale:	Am, Dm, E, G, C, F, Bdim

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Contents and Index (PAD diagrams are above)
	What is PAD: Perfectly Aligning Diagrams - help in sight-reading on guitar
	How the method was developed
	Basic chord patterns mapped into notes
	Musical Structure of Guitar - sight reading exercises
	The ""White Piano Keys" pattern of the notes of C Major scale on the guitar fretboard
	Notes along the fingerboard. Octave on guitar
	Grouping frets on the guitar
	Notes along guitar strings: 1-st and 2-nd intervals
	Thirds intervals on the guitar. Exercise
	Triads and Tetrads forming. Diagonal structure of thirds intervals on the fretboard
	Building chords and inverted chords on a fret group
	PAD chord diagrams. Explanation, availability
	How to practice with the chord PADs; Chord over scale diagrams
	Working with other keys on guitar
	C blues scale and A minor scale
	Key Signatures. Transposition
	Ear, fingering, memory training with visual musical notes presentation
(not presented on the internet)	Bass notes in the sequence of the circle of fifths. Connecting bass notes with triads.
	The book
	Working with PADs for success with guitar without memorizing
	Thank you ! Igor Polk, the author
	What people say:
	"Current popular systems of musical notation for guitarists essentially based on tablature, the diagrams with fingers on strings, while making introduction of harmony (chords) simple, have numerous disadvantages over standard musical notation. This system (PADs) took the best from both sides. I can see that this system has tremendous educational power" Herbert Smith
	"I think you'll be happy to know that this has accomplished more than you even set out for it to do. I'm no guitarist; I play piano (I've only been playing for around eight months, so I'm a beginner). I love how rich and full chords sound on guitar, but I was never really sure how to accomplish that same sound on a piano. I couldn't read guitar tabs, so every guitar site I visited was useless to me. Then I found your site, and it bridged that translation gap immediately. Thank you so much for creating this! " Patrick Hunter

• "What is the advantage of the method? You just mark the notes on the fretboard like any other diagrams do?"
  The main advantage is that you work with real standard universal ages-proven musical notation practicing your sight-reading skills. While your work with these diagrams is as easy as with other diagrams, you intuitively memorize this notation, so if you need to work with written music, you will be much more familiar with it. Music notation's main advantage is that you can construct yourself all chords, instead of memorization. It is very easy with standard musical notation. If you step beyond the certain level, sooner or later you will need to deal with notes on the staff. I have invented this method exactly because I needed to sight read, and now my job is much easier.
• Sight reading is among the most valuable skills a guitarist can posess. This method gives an perfect start for sight-reading: familiarization with the fingerboard. Abundance of exercises. From here you can use any other method of training. If you would ever need it..

Key words: guitar, chord, scale, chart, classical, note, tablature, book, fingerboard, fretboard, sight reading exercise
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