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Guitar Arpeggio Fingerings – Download these color fretboard diagrams

One of the keys to the Yellow Guitar Book method is to learn the 5 basic guitar fingerings - also called “shapes”, “patterns” or “positions”. The fretboard diagrams provided below, present these guitar fingerings for you in simple, visual patterns that you can easily memorize. Learning these positions will help you to master the guitar fretboard.

How to use the fretboard diagrams in Yellow Guitar Books:

  • Guitar Arpeggio Fingerings are shown.

  • Play these notes starting with the lowest note on the thick E string and play up to the highest note on the thin E string, one string at a time.

  • The root is indicated by a color depending on scale type.

  • Each position represents a different way to play the same Guitar Arpeggio Fingerings in a different area of the fretboard. Positions can be combined and moved in any combination you desire.

Each of the downloadable fretboard diagrams on this page show you the 5 basic positions of each Guitar Arpeggio Fingerings listed. Arpeggios are the same notes as in a chord played in order. Once you learn the 5 basic fingerings of each Guitar Arpeggio, you will go a long way towards knowing your way around the fretboard. Once you learn each position of the Guitar Arpeggio, you’ve learned them for every key! Just locate the root of the next key and move the pattern.

Download these color fretboard diagrams to start learning guitar fingerings now!

Guitar Scale Fingerings – download color pdfs

Major Guitar Arpeggio Diagram

Minor Guitar Arpeggio Diagram

Major Seven Guitar Arpeggio Diagram

Dominant Seven Guitar Arpeggio Diagram

Minor Seven Guitar Arpeggio Diagram

Minor Seven b5 Guitar Arpeggio Diagram


Each of these downloadable fretboard diagrams of guitar scale fingerings comes from one of the chapters in Yellow Guitar Books Volume I. There is much more about guitar scales and guitar fingerings and how all of these concepts tie together in Yellow Guitar Books, Volume I.

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