Originally Posted by: mbgold78When I look at a picture of the fretboard for example http://www.guitar-instruction-video.com/fretbo3.jpg
I see the position of the C on the open A to the position of the E on the open D
is different than the C to E relationship on open G to Open B. I was expecting the shape of the C scale to be the same?

That's because the distance fron the G string to the B string is a major 3rd (4 frets). Whereas the distance between all other strings is a 4th (5 frets).

This means any fretboard pattern that crosses over the G and B strings will be "shifted over" one fret.

Make sense?