Scale chart PDFs or PDF book?

Octavio

Major/Minor scales, the modes, harmonic minor, melodic minor etc.

I have a good book but it's not the most portable. I'd like to use a tablet as I practice scales frequently, but the PDFs I've found online are poor (and I'd rather not get bogged down in an app, internet connection etc).

Can anyone share or point me in a good direction?

Cheers

viz

This is maybe not what you're looking for but it's all 462 7-note scales within an octave, arranged within their families. The top left one is the diatonic family that we know and love. The ones near the bottom aren't useful - they're not even really scales as they have like an augmented fourth as one of the intervals. But the top few rows are good. Many of them have alternative names.

Each has a unique code, relating to the semitones and tones (eg 2212221 is a major scale)

Edit - except they've come out unreadable, I'll see if I can fix it. 

Edit: I can't get them to be readable, sorry!

mrkb

I use Neck Diagrams to create my own. It’s great software for scales and chord charts.

https://www.neckdiagrams.com/

Octavio

viz said:

This is maybe not what you're looking for but it's all 462 7-note scales within an octave, arranged within their families. The top left one is the diatonic family that we know and love. The ones near the bottom aren't useful - they're not even really scales as they have like an augmented fourth as one of the intervals. But the top few rows are good. Many of them have alternative names.

Each has a unique code, relating to the semitones and tones (eg 2212221 is a major scale)

Edit - except they've come out unreadable, I'll see if I can fix it. 

Edit: I can't get them to be readable, sorry!

No worries. Thanks for the attempt. 
PDF chord book welcome too. I've always used those skinny 'books that fit in your guitar bag', which in hindsight is pretty impractical.

Brad

mrkb said:

I use Neck Diagrams to create my own. It’s great software for scales and chord charts.

https://www.neckdiagrams.com/

I’d second using this. Doing it yourself will help you learn this stuff in a quicker and deeper way (I did it back in the day with pen and paper  ). Depends how averse you are to doing the hard yards mind…

Octavio

Brad said:

mrkb said:

I use Neck Diagrams to create my own. It’s great software for scales and chord charts.

https://www.neckdiagrams.com/

I’d second using this. Doing it yourself will help you learn this stuff in a quicker and deeper way (I did it back in the day with pen and paper  ). Depends how averse you are to doing the hard yards mind…

I'd say quite averse. I know it'll just be another barrier to actually playing and time is limited with young family. I managed to get a PDF version of The Ultimate Scale book by Troy Stetina. I have the hardcopy so know what to expect. Thanks for the input though, got there in the end.

ESBlonde

I’m led to believe the Beato book is pdf and has lots of scales, chords and modes in it. It’s said not to have lots of explanation but lots of reviews available. It’s often on sale too so might fit the OPs needs.

Benm39

Alex Rockwell books might be worth a look.  Lots of very in depth scale manuals there

Gizmo

Octavio said:

Major/Minor scales, the modes, harmonic minor, melodic minor etc.

I have a good book but it's not the most portable. I'd like to use a tablet as I practice scales frequently, but the PDFs I've found online are poor (and I'd rather not get bogged down in an app, internet connection etc).

Can anyone share or point me in a good direction?

Cheers

Some nice clear PDF's here,

https://pbguitarstudio.com/SGuitarLessonPDF.html

barnsleyboy

Octavio said:

 (and I'd rather not get bogged down in an app, internet connection etc).

I know you're not keen on an app, but this is a tidy little one, not complicated and lots of good stuff included.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitar-scales-chords-power/id647000751

thinline72

I really like Jay Skyler charts and overall his website is full of goodies: https://www.jayskyler.com/guitar-fretboard-diagrams/index.html

It's not the easiest site to navigate and I don't think there is a single PDF containing all the charts. But if you spend some time on downloading images of the ones you are interested in and combine them into a single PDF, I think it'll be well worth it.

Here are a few pics to show how they look:

thinline72

There is also a cool tool where you can create your own and find tons of charts created by the community: https://www.editor.guitarscientist.com/diagrams

It's possible to download them as PDFs, although I don't remember if it's possible to do in the free version. I mainly use it to create custom charts for a bit less common stuff like scales for open tunings etc + with my own notion. Here is one of Open Dm charts that I created:

Rocker

Has the OP tried playing music rather than scales?

Brad

Rocker said:

Has the OP tried playing music rather than scales?

Perhaps the OP wants to improve their fretboard knowledge and widen their tonal palette in order to actually better realise the music they want to play? 

DonnyMac

barnsleyboy said:

Octavio said:

 (and I'd rather not get bogged down in an app, internet connection etc).

I know you're not keen on an app, but this is a tidy little one, not complicated and lots of good stuff included.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitar-scales-chords-power/id647000751

This is the sort of thing I've been looking for too. This looks really good, thank you. 

Vintage65

There are somebarnsleyboy said:

Octavio said:

 (and I'd rather not get bogged down in an app, internet connection etc).

I know you're not keen on an app, but this is a tidy little one, not complicated and lots of good stuff included.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitar-scales-chords-power/id647000751

The music apps I use only require the internet for download and install.