Octave Method for Low E : 4-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Four String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 4-string bass 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 :CAGED4BASS : Octave Method for 4-String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 4-string bass 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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Bernard Edwards
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Good Times
Good Times lesson
Dance Dance Dance (Yowsah Yowsah Yowsah)
Chic - Dance, Dance, Dance (Live At The Budokan)
Chic & Sister Sledge - I Want Your Love
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Bernard Edwards was the man where funk/soul/disco bass lines were concerned, his best work being heard with the likes of Chic and Sister Sledge. |
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CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
C major scale (ionian mode) : General
Can the CAGED octaves memorisation method be directly applied to the 4-string bass guitar?
Answer: Yes - but not without some serious lateral thinking.
The problem is that the 4-string bass has one too few strings to allow a standard CAGED octaves system to
be generated (this is not the case with the 5 and 6-string bass guitars - see BLOGoZON No. 60 and
BLOGoZON No.62 respectively for details). Additionally the original CAGED guitar system is based upon the chaining-together of the open position chord shapes C A G E D and obviously these are NOT available on a 4-string bass guitar.
To overcome this problem a NULL string needs to be introduced i.e. an imaginary extra string. Rather than go with the 5-string bass and introduce an extra low B string the CAGED octaves approach will be to adopt the first string from a 6-string bass i.e. an imaginary high C string (this will also tie the two instruments together in a coherant manner for future use.)
NOTE: the extra string is not tuned to B (as would the comparison with a standard 6-string guitar) since the gap between ALL the strings will be a PERFECT FOURTH ( unlike the MAJOR THIRD between the guitar's 3rd and 2nd strings) since chords will not be played. The 4-string bass fingerboard plus the extra NULL string would take on the appearance of the drawing that follows:-
Now rather than name the octave shapes after the open position chord shapes - they will instead be named after the open string names - including the imaginary null string tuned to C. The diagram that follows shows the resultant CAGED4BASS methodology.
The five octave shapes that are generated are explored in detail in the tabbed panel that follows:-
CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
C major scale (ionian mode) : Box shape pdf files
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- 3C*
- 3A1
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 2D*
- 3C* at 12
CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
C major scale (ionian mode) : Overall box shapes
The box shapes for the previous exercise follows:-
CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
C major scale (ionian mode) : GuitarPro6 TAB
CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
C major scale : Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf
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CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
C major scale : Overall fretboard box shapes
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This BLOGoZON is dedicated to the memory of the man that made me want to pick up the bass guitar and play that funky music white boy ..........................................plus a few famous others.....John Deacon.
Mr Bernard Edwards RIP
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I wonder why he's the greatest dancer |
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