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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FLEA
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Michael Peter Balzary is better known as Flea who is the groove behind funk-rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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Hal Leonard produce an instructional DVD plus all of the Red hot Chili Peppers transcription books and methods. Modulus produce a series of Flea designed basses with the Funk Unlimited Flea 4 shown in the photograph below. |
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The table that follows lists previous BLOGoZON issues that relate to the CAGED4BASS methodology:-
BLOGoZON ISSUE No. |
CAGED4BASS |
C major scale box shapes |
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C major arpeggio box shapes |
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C pentatonic major scale box shapes |
The table that follows lists previous BLOGoZON issues that relate to the AGEDC4BASS methodology:-
BLOGoZON ISSUE No. |
AGEDC4BASS |
A natural minor scale box shapes |
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A minor arpeggio box shapes |
This issue demonstrates the perfect scale to create bass-lines over minor chords regardless of the musical context - PENTATONIC MINOR.
The easiest example of the pentatonic minor scale is rooted on A natural, hence the A natural version of the AGEDC4BASS sequence is shown in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all of the A pentatonic minor scale notes plotted over the entire fretboard for the 4-string bass guitar in the AGEDC4BASS style:-
Once 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 pentatonic minor are detailed below in the AGEDC4BASS manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below detail all five box shapes for an A pentatonic minor in the AGEDC4BASS style.
AGEDC4BASS - A pentatonic minor scale box shapes
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- 3Am1
- 4Gm1
- 4Em2
- 2Dm*
- 3Cm*
- 3Am1 at 12
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Ev'ry body's been there I don't mean on vacation....Zon Brookes |
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