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What really worked for me was getting all 12 keys down within frets 1-5. If you're already familiar with the CAGED system, all those shapes crop up, plus a few extra ones giving a 'bigger picture' and better connectivity over the fretboard in my opinion. I then made scale diagrams as I went along so I had them in a visual format. Was a fair bit of work, but well worth it in my experience at least.
If you want to play them all in the same key, try shape 1 starting on F, shape 2 starting on G, etc all the way up the F maj scale, but if you go too far with that approach you get used to seeing your fingers play the patterns with respect to the dot markers on the fingerboard which will then become a dependency you have to break later.
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I have practice routines that I use every day, one of my favs is playing the notes slowly and singing each note's name.
Now you have your map, you can overlay your fingering patterns and for most scales you will know what to call the notes in them, so long as you (a) never mix # and b in the same key (b) ensure you have precisely one of each note name present. The keys with a lot of #s (F#, C#) in may present a problem: you've got a note that looks like an F or a C but you can't call it that because you've already got an F# or a C#. Those are E# and B#. Similarly in keys with a lot of bs you may need 'B' = Cb or 'E' = Fb.
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