Octave Method for 6-String Guitar : Major Scales & Arpeggios


CAGED octaves method for 6-string guitar

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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.


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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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A minor arpeggio box shapes

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This issue of BLOGoZON demonstrates the A minor arpeggio box shapes.

The AGEDC octaves sequence is shown for A natural in the diagram that follows:-

AGEDC octaves A natural

GuitarPro6 A natural octaves

The diagrams that follow show all of the A minor arpeggio notes plotted over the 6-string guitar's

fretboard in both the Guitar Pro and AGEDC octaves styles:-

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AGEDC Am arpeggio notes

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 A minor arpeggio are detailed below for the
6-string guitar in the AGEDC octaves manner:-

AGEDC Am arpeggio intervals

The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the A minor arpeggio for the 6-string guitar in the AGEDC octaves style.


6 string guitar - A minor arpeggio box shapes

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