Visualizing the G Major Scale

There are many ways to visualize fretboard patterns on the neck. If you are familiar with the G major scale on the banjo you have likely learned to play it in single string style...

or melodic style...

One technique I find useful for visualizing all of the notes in the G major scale all the way up the fretboard is to look at the chords generated by the scale. Begin with the open G and move each string up to one note note in the G scale.

Here is an example using a TITM roll on each of the chords...

This gives you all of the notes in your G major scale up to the 12th fret.

I have found it can also be useful to break this method down to adjacent string pairs...

Finally here is the idea hooked up with some rolling...