More major scale patterns

The last post about showed an F major scale and highlighted the use of an easy major scale pattern and how that pattern sits between what I have called the tritone pattern. F major differs from C major by 1 note—the B which is flattened in F major and obviously is natural in the C major scale which uses only the natural notes. In the following picture the difference between the pattern for F major (from the previous post) and the pattern for C major can be seen where I've raised all the green notes up a semitone:



Learning the C major scale would be valuable step in learning all the notes on the guitar fretboard. Here's a version of the above pattern with a few tweaks to clean it up a bit:



This pattern is also framed by the tritone pattern at each end, and because of that there are duplicate notes present. Typically if you were playing this as a scale you would choose to play only one of the duplicates in each octave. So it could be played in two obvious ways:





This pattern and the one from the previous post can cover the entire fretboard. They can just be stacked up using the common notes from the tritone pattern at each end. Hopefully I'll get around to showing this in the next post.