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Originally Posted by pig
correct me if i'm wrong, but that looks like playing the c-form in open position, a-la the CAGED system. in the key of C. move that up, and you go A form, then G, etc. you can do a lot of little tricks inside that/those for dexterity, but i've been slack about it for a while. :P
ok - not moving it up, but rather finding the same notes a few frets up and substituting as necessary.
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Indeed, that's in C major. If we want to get
really technical it'd be E Phrygian (I think, I have trouble keeping the names of the modes straight sometimes) through two octaves with an added third on top (since you go up to the G). That's if we want to get technical, which I'm not sure we do. The scale outlined in my post is a single octave of E Major (aka E Ionian), since I wanted an easy example. You can get a C Major out of yours by going between two C's (such as 5th string third fret and second string first fret), A Minor (Aeolian) by going between two A's (5th string open and 3rd string second fret), etc.
That's a natural minor, by the way. Melodic and harmonic minors are another discussion.
Also, if you're interested, the notes you're playing there are E F G A B C D E F G A B C D E F G, in that precise order. You start on an E, so it's an E-derived scale and it's Phrygian because everything's natural; you're playing it with no sharps and flats and that makes it Phrygian in E. If you were to start it on the G it'd be Mixolydian, D would be Dorian, etc. Modal stuff gets a bit more complex though and there's a whole whack of scale theory that you have to at least have a basic idea of before you can really understand it, so if the above paragraph doesn't make much sense then don't sweat it.
I'm not familiar enough with the CAGED system to know if any of this was what pig was talking about. I just do my own thing.