I know what you're saying, what I mean the scales I posted are so much easier to understand just at the first glance, especially for beginners :) Put both charts side by side next to a beginner and ask them to play a scale and I bet they can do it off the bat with the scale I posted.
Dana: Sure they could. They are very information-laden charts. Have you thought about turning them into PDFs to make them easier to print?
You gave advice on finding chords matching the note in the first or third beat of the measure. I tried this on the The Road North by Alisdair Fraser but
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