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   No matter how skilled you become you will most likely always use 'patterns' to play guitar, Alot of people can type without looking at the keyboard and playing scales is the same way. The bigger patterns are easier to recognize than the smaller ones, A bigger pattern would be a chunk that uses all six strings and spans four frets or so, A smaller pattern would be three strings that span four frets or so...

Big Pattern

Small Pattern

   The great thing about these patterns is that they can be found in all 12 keys, You should be able to look at the 'pattern' below and play it on your guitar. Due to the 'tuning' of the guitar the 'fourth' string has only two tones and the other five strings will use three tones, If you look at the big pattern on our tonemap then you can see that you are not skipping or duplicating any tones...

   You can split the 'big' pattern up into smaller 'horizontal' patterns or on a string by string basis, From the top string (in the pattern above) you can see that the first, fifth and sixth string all use the same 'horizontal' pattern, And you can see the second and third string use the same 'horizontal' patterns. IF you jump up to the 3rd fret in the key of C then you will see that there are four strings that use the same 'horizontal pattern'...

   The easiest patterns to start with are the ones that use all six strings to start with (0th, 5th, 10th), There are at most 'seven' big patterns and all seven are used in every key. Learning just two patterns will cover almost the entire fretboard, The beginning of the first pattern is the ending of the second pattern because the 12th fret is the 'octave' of the 0th fret...

    The | first pattern | shown is the first pattern you should learn because its the first pattern in the Key of C, Open up worksheet 7.2 and click through the keys while you look for this pattern, You should be able to find it in every key. Learning each chunk should be a long term project, After you master a chunk then you can look for chord patterns that are inside that chunk...