“Now we are moving into the area just above the basic pattern played above the root note fret. Maybe it has occured to you by now that the patterns for the key of A are the same as for the key of E with the number five added to each of the transcrip- tion numbers. It's no big deal — it’s just the way it is. x T-31 et PM gg A aera ‘Coming up, we cover that intermediate area in the middle between the two Toot note frets. In the case of the key of A, that means centering between the fifth and seventeenth fret. You should remember this one from E. It's the same except for its position. T-32 A A “This last one is the same pattern that you play when you are centered at the open strings. That's the reason for all of the twelfth fret notes you have to play with the index finger. Watch for the oddball on the second string. T-33 te = es A Wy PT Paeat “Now before we give it up, I want to talk to you just for a second. The whole pattern is important. That is why we studied it piece by piece. These fingerings stand on their own as fingering exercises. But what I think you really want to know is how and where the scale is primarily used and drill yourself at that point. This area is on and around the root note fret. One other thing — these boxes are arbitrary divisions. You can run right through them from the top, out the bottom if you can think to do it. Now here is an example of what I'm talking about in the key of E. This is bound to wake you up!