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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Stuart Zender
Stuart Zender bass solo
Jamiroquai - Blow Your Mind (London 1994)
Jamiroquai - Blow your mind (Tokyo 1993)
Jamiroquai - Too young to die (london 1995)
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Stuart Zender is best known as the bassist and co-founder of the acid-jazz-band Jamiroquai. |
Faber Music produce a Jamiroquai compilation song book called High Times Singles 1992-2006. Warwick currently produce a Stuart Zender signature series bass - shown below. |
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AGEDC4BASS - A minor arpeggio box shapes
In BLOGoZON No.34 and BLOGoZON No.35 the C major scale and C major arpeggios were demonstrated using the CAGED4BASS memorisation method - designed specifically for the 4-string bass guitar.
Similarly BLOGoZON No.36 demonstrated the AGEDC4BASS memorisation method for the A natural minor scale box shapes - this BLOGoZON completes the quartet with the details of the A minor arpeggio box shapes.
Repeated from BLOGoZON No.36 the next diagram details the AGEDC4BASS octave shapes for an A natural note:-
Providing the backbone of the NATURAL MINOR SCALE is the minor arpeggio and the two should ideally be practiced together.
The diagram that follows shows all of the A minor arpeggio notes plotted over the entire fretboard for the 4-string bass guitar in the AGEDC4BASS style:-
Again 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 in the AGEDC4BASS manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below detail all five box shapes for an A minor arpeggio in the AGEDC4BASS style.
AGEDC4BASS - A minor arpeggio box shapes
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- 3Am1
- 4Gm1
- 4Em2
- 2Dm*
- 3Cm*
- 3Am1 at 12
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Don't you know that you blow my mind?...Zon Brookes |
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