Rotating Root Intervals

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All of the intervals needed to play any scale or chord around any root note, on any string, on any fret, can be found using the simple fingering pattern below:

362
4||
|736
514|
|||7
6251
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736

362
4||
|73
514

514
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625
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736

4||
|73
514
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625

36    62
4|    ||
|7    73
51    14
||    ||
62    25
||    ||
73    36

This pattern is not only moveable up and down the FRETS of the neck (horizontally), it is also "rotatable" across the STRINGS of the neck. The root note
When you run out of notes

If any portion of the pattern lands on strings 2-3, shift the pattern apart 1 fret: move the 2nd and 1st strings UP 1 fret, or move the 3rd and all lower strings DOWN 2 fret.

3625
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|736
2514|
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36251
4|||
736

36    625
14|    |||
||7    736
251    14|
|||    ||7
362    251
4||    ||
73    36