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eBook :Octave Method for Six String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for 6-string guitar based on an instrument specific modification of the CAGED guitar method, using linked octave shapes rather than open position chord shapes for ease and simplicity of use. |
Paperbook Book :Octave Method for 6-String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for 6-string guitar based on an instrument specific modification of the CAGED guitar method, using octave shapes rather than open position chord shapes for ease and simplicity of use. |
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Slash
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Saul Hudson who better known as Slash is the Les Paul brandishing guitarist born in England. A Guns N Roses Anthology is available; plus a large number of other books from sheetmusicplus.com. |
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Gibson manufacturers a Slash Les Paul both at home in the US and offshore as the Epiphone brand. |
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Sweet Child O'Mine - E harmonic minor box shapes
During the first half of the guitar solo from the Guns n Roses classic track Sweet Child O'Mine Slash uses the E harmonic minor scale almost exclusively.
Attached below is a fingerboard diagram showing all the intervals for the E harmonic minor scale.
The black circles are the notes used by Slash for the solo - with the single red circle (minor seventh interval) being the only note that steps outside this scale - used once in bar 4 over the Am chord where it is bent up a whole step (tone) to the E natural.
Slash has chosen to use the E harmonic minor scale rather than either the natural minor or the pentatonic minor scales as the chord progression borrows a chord from the harmonised harmonic minor scale.
The tables that follow show the harmonised E natural minor scale followed by the harmonised E harmonic minor scale. The highlighted cells show the Vm - Bm from the natural minor scale and the chord it is substituted by; the V - B ( as the dominant seventh chord B7 - the 4 note chord produced by the harmonic minor scale).
Slash solos over a four bar chord progression which is repeated four times in total - as follows;
Long before Slash improvised the solo to Sweet Child O'Mine he had to sit down and LEARN the E harmonic minor scale box shapes
Hence the EDCAG octaves sequence is shown for E natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all of the E harmonic minor scale notes plotted over the 6-string guitar's
fretboard in both the 
and EDCAG octaves styles:-
As always a more long term solution to fretboard navigation is to see scales/arpeggios as INTERVAL shapes rather than note names - as these are universal to all scales, arpeggios and chords rather than specific to one particular root note - with this in mind the intervals for the E harmonic minor scale are detailed below in the EDCAG octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the E harmonic minor scale in the
EDCAG octaves style.
EDCAG octaves - E harmonic minor box shapes
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An additional box shape is detailed for the E harmonic minor - as the pattern that is played at fret twelve falls off the edge of the fingerboard - hence the modified fingering shown above. To the right is the box shape complete with gaps. |
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- 6Em4Em1 modified
- 6Em4Em1 gaps
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1 at 12
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Where do we go now?....Zon Brookes |
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