The Watering Hole

Making Music
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I've always had a bunch of cheat sheets lying around to help me but now that I've discovered how cool laminating sheets can be (and inexpensive), I've started to combine (and upgrade) some to make into decent looking help sheets that I can bundle together and hang on the wall.

The following .pdf's are samples of what I've been putting together (the first is just a fret board comparison).

http://www.nwdreamer.com/download/FretboardSamples.pdf

http://www.nwdreamer.com/download/FretboardSamples2.pdf

http://www.nwdreamer.com/download/FretboardSamples3.pdf

The biggest questions I have are these:

-  What do you think is most important to show on these types of sheets?
-  Should I add anything to these?
-  Should I remove anything?
-  What other sheets would be useful?  I'll probably add other fret boards eventually for mandolin, baritone and maybe some alternate tunings, but I'm more interested in other types of info.  For example: Chord shapes and calculations, pentatonic scales/patterns, sweep patterns, etc.

One more trivial question is which color fretboard looks best. :)

(BTW - I made this using Excel of all things! 8-) )
To be perfectly honest, I find those type of things worse than useless, mostly because they are so busy. The other thing is that I very rarely think in terms of notes, other than the root, ("hey we're jamming in the key of A")  then think/organise in terms of intervals/scale shapes taken from the root.
I did make up something like that a long time ago, but had one sheet for each scale shape with the interval number, rather than note, that way it could be used for all keys.
I'm no where's near that advanced yet.  So before you know what you're doing, what would you suggest?

Do you have an example of these scale shapes with interval numbers?  I think I have something like that, but I'm not sure...