Guitar: Scales for the Armonía

Pick a root and one of 24 types and see it as it lies on this fretboard, roots marked throughout. A few carry most of the repertoire; the rest are for the arrangement that goes somewhere else.

Scale work in the armonía is for the passing figure that joins one chord to the next — a few notes at the seam of a change, played by one member while the other keeps the pattern intact.

A written line is not a scale played straight through. It is a handful of notes taken out of one and timed to land before the sung phrase comes back — which is what a map like this is actually for.