Scales View is the fourth of five different views within the ChordWizard workspace. You can enter it by clicking on the Scales tab at the bottom of the screen or with either of the following:
Menu: View-Scales
Keyboard: Ctrl+4
In Scales View, the Scales menu appears in the middle of the menu bar, and contains a set of commands specifically for use with this view.
Summary
While you can view the locations of all notes of a scale on the Fretboard with Relations View, in practice you can't reach every location at once with your hand!
This is why improvisation and melodies are played on stringed instruments in scale positions, which are subsets of the total number of note locations. All locations within a scale position can be reached with the hand from a particular fret position.
Scales View allows you to explore and practice scale positions for any scale on the fretboard of any instrument or tuning. The analysis of all possible scale positions is completely automatic, so you can concentrate on learning the positions you are presented with.
In addition to just revealing scale positions, Scales View gives you a flexible framework which demonstrates how they are played and allows you to conduct your own interactive practice sessions.
You can customise how practice sessions operate with the Practice options.
Full and Partial Positions
ChordWizard offers two perspectives on scale positions. You can choose to use either of these, or to switch between them as needed. In either case, the locations of the scale positions are highlighted on the fretboard with overlay labels.
Full Positions are those which include the locations of all notes in a scale that can be physically reached with the hand at a particular fret on the instrument. You can configure Scales View to use full positions with any of:
Scales Bar: 
Menu: Scales-Full Positions
Partial Positions are those which include the locations of only the notes a scale within a single octave, arranged in sequence from the root note to the root note one octave up. You can configure Scales View to use partial positions with any of:
Scales Bar: 
Menu: Scales-Partial Positions
You can get more details on how full and partial positions work in Scale Positions.
Exploring Positions
The first step in using Scales View is to select a scale in the Scale Matrix. All possible positions for the scale are then available to be explored, and are arranged in a series from the lowest fret to the highest. The Practice Panel Grid and the Status Bar indicate the fret and order of the current scale position.
The instrument, tuning, and Fret Span specified in the Practice options affect the number of possible positions available for each scale.
You can navigate through the scale positions in order with the following two commands:
Scales Bar: 
Menu: Scales-Prior Position
Scales Bar: 
Menu: Scales-Next Position
You can also select a scale position directly from the Practice Panel Grid, using the Position dropdown list.
The third way to select a scale position is to hover the mouse over the Fretboard. Wherever a note location from an alternative scale position is found, a hollow overlay label will be highlighted. You can then click on this location to select the scale position that contains it.
The overlay labels which indicate the fretboard locations of each scale position can be configured to show note or degree names, either for interactive exploration, or for practice. You can change between notes and degrees with the following:
Scales Bar: 
Menu: Filter-Overlay-Note Labels
Scales Bar: 
Menu: Filter-Overlay-Degree Labels
Single Practice
Once you have established a scale and a position for it, ChordWizard can give you an animated demonstration of how to play the scale position. This is known as a Single Practice.
You can start a Single Practice with any of:
Practice Panel: 
Keyboard: F9
Menu: Scales-Single Practice
Depending on the Practice options, you can get an additional silent animation so that you can repeat the sequence of note locations on your own actual instrument.
Many of the Practice Panel Grid settings affect the behavior of the Single Practice. These include which notes in the position are played; what note pattern, rhythm pattern and tempo is used; and whether a chord is played at the same time to set a harmonic context for the scale practice.
Cycle Practice
Continuous scale practice sessions can be conducted easily in Scales View by sequencing a series of Single Practice animations, or steps, together. This is known as a Cycle Practice.
As well as simple repetition, a Cycle Practice session offers you the ability to automatically vary many of the Grid settings between each step to keep the practice interesting and challenging. For example you may vary the scale, the scale position, the note and rhythm patterns or the tempo.
You can start a Cycle Practice with any of:
Practice Panel: 
Keyboard: F10
Menu: Scales-Cycle Practice
This opens the Cycle Practice window, where you specify which parameters vary between steps, and how they vary. Pressing the OK button in the Cycle Practice window starts the practice session.
Depending on the Practice options you have set, the Cycle Practice session can finish after a certain number of steps, or it can continue indefinitely. It will be interrupted if you change away from Scales View or if you open a popup window while the session is active. You can also terminate a Cycle Practice session manually with any of:
Practice Panel: 
Keyboard: F11
Menu: Scales-Stop
With Cycle Practice, you do not need to have a scale already selected in the Scale Matrix to begin a session.
Scale Chart Reports
You can print a full report of scale positions as a scale chart report. You can also print the scale positions for the currently selected scale by allowing the filter to restrict the scope of the report. Generally this will happen automatically.
There are many options you can choose from, including banner, color, font and layout settings, and even a table of contents. These are available from the Report Options window.
To see how your scale chart report will look before you print it, you can open Print Preview, with any of:
Tool Bar: 
Menu: File-Print Preview
This opens the Report Type window, allowing you to choose a Scale Chart report (from Scales View this type will be selected by default).
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