Octave Method for 6-String Guitar : Major Scales & Arpeggios
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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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Robben Ford
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Robben Ford is the accomplished blues/jazz guitarist who likes to inject a modal feel to his improvisations. Hal Leonard produce a Best of Robben Ford tab book plus a series of play in the style of Robben Ford DVD/books. A photo of the now defunct Fender Robben Ford is shown right. |
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Rather than adopt the standard minor pentatonic soloing approach so beloved by other blues/rock guitarists Robben Ford travels via a more modal path, in other words over minor chords he tends to favour the DORIAN MODE.
The dorian mode is just the major scale played from the second note (rather than the first) up to the same note one octave higher - so the C major scale is C D E F G A B (C) - Formula 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (8)
therefore the D dorian mode is D E F G A B C (D) - Formula 1 2 b3 4 5 6 b7 (8).
However the D dorian mode should really be compared to D natural minor - 1 2 b3 4 5 b6 b7 (8) - the only difference being that the minor sixth (b6) is replaced by the major sixth (6). The approach adopted by Ford and others is to follow the minor chord with its corresponding dorian mode - so for a blues in the key of D minor the following takes place:-
Chord name |
Mode used for improvisation |
Dm |
D dorian |
Gm |
G dorian |
Am |
A dorian |
To cement the relationship between the mode and the chord the MODAL ARPEGGIO should be learnt - in other words the defining chordal sound produced by the mode. For D dorian the modal chord is D minor sixth (Dm6). A blues sequence in D minor is tabbed below and the Guitar Pro 5 file is available via this link.
The D dorian mode is explored in detail using the CAGED octaves methodology in the next tabbed panel:-
D dorian mode - box shapes
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- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 4Dm2 at 12
The D minor sixth arpeggio is explored in detail using the CAGED octaves methodology in the next tabbed panel:-
Dm6 - box shapes
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- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 4Dm2 at 12
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Soul on ten....Zon Brookes |
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