A Major Scale on Jacob Collier 5-String

Play the A Major scale on Jacob Collier 5-String with fretboard diagrams that map the pattern across the neck. The Major scale has 7 notes per octave and belongs to the common family.

Every open string on Jacob Collier 5-String belongs to A Major, A among them — D (the 4th), A (the root), E (the 5th). That makes ringing open notes a free voice under the line. Open, the strings cover D2 to D4.

It is also known as the Ionian scale.

Bright, resolved, and stable. The foundation of Western tonal music and the most common mode in pop, classical, folk, and jazz.

Heard in: Pop, classical, country, folk, gospel — the default major tonality of Western music.

Jacob Collier 5-String is tuned D–A–E–A–D, with 15 frets to work with. This 5-string is tuned D-A-E-A-D (low to high), a symmetric tuning that mirrors around the middle E string — standard guitar shapes do NOT transfer, so every voicing here is built for this tuning.

Each position shows the scale notes and their intervals from the root so you can connect the shape to its sound, hear it with audio playback, and practice it in any register. Movable patterns let you transpose the same fingering to other keys once it is learned.

Once a position is under your fingers, link the A Major scale to the chords it harmonizes and to progressions in the key of A to start improvising and writing with it. Working a scale alongside its chords is the fastest way to make it stick and to hear how it colors a progression.