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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John Paul Jones
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John Paul Jones is best known as both the provider of the low-end and co-founder of the ultimate English rock band Led Zeppelin.
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Alfred Music Publishing produce a transcription book - Led Zeppelin:Bass TAB Anthology - which contains all of John Paul's best work with the band. John Paul Jones presently has strong links with Devonshire's luthier brothers the Mansons. However Led Zeppelin's material was largely played on a Fender Jazz as shown in the photograph below. |
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The table that follows lists previous BLOGoZON issues that relate to the AGEDC4BASS methodology:-
BLOGoZON ISSUE No. |
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A natural minor scale box shapes |
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A minor arpeggio box shapes |
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A pentatonic minor box shapes |
This issue demonstrates the perfect scale to create bass-lines over minor or dominant seventh chords - especially in blues or blues-rock contexts - the BLUES scale.
The easiest example of the blues scale is rooted on A natural, hence the A natural version of the AGEDC4BASS octave sequence is shown in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all of the A blues scale notes plotted over the entire 4-string bass guitar's fretboard 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 blues scale are detailed below in the AGEDC4BASS manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below detail all five box shapes for the A blues scale in the AGEDC4BASS style.
AGEDC4BASS - A blues scale box shapes
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- 3Am1
- 4Gm1
- 4Em2
- 2Dm*
- 3Cm*
- 3Am1 at 12
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Hey, hey, baby when you walk that way.... |
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