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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Andrew Craighan
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Andrew Craighan is lead guitarist for English doom metal band My Dying Bride. |
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Mayones Regius 7 demo
My Dying Bride - She is the Dark
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Em7 arpeggio box shapes (3 notes per string)
The table that follows lists previous BLOGoZON issues where the ARPEGGIO BOX SHAPES contained within the THREE NOTES PER STRING scale shapes have been detailed:-
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BLOGoZON ISSUE No. |
ACRONYM |
ARPEGGIO NAME |
CAGED |
C major |
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AGEDC |
A minor |
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EDCAG |
E minor |
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This issue demonstrates the E MINOR SEVENTH ARPEGGIO (3 NOTES PER STRING) - Em7.
The EDCAG octaves sequence is shown for E natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all of the E minor seventh arpeggio notes plotted over the 8-string guitar's
fretboard in both the 
and EDCAG octaves styles:-
As always 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 E minor seventh arpeggio are detailed below in the EDCAG octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the E minor seventh arpeggio in the
EDCAG octaves style.
EDCAG octaves - Em7 arpeggio box shapes (3 notes per string)
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- 6Em4Dm2
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 5Am3Gm1
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 6Em4Dm2 at 12
- 6Em4Dm2
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 5Am3Gm1
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 6Em4Dm2 at 12
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Catching feathers....Zon Brookes |
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