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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E pentatonic minor box shapes
This issue of BLOGoZON demonstrates the E PENTATONIC MINOR SCALE box shapes.
The EDCAG octaves sequence is shown for E natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all of the E pentatonic minor notes plotted over the 6-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 pentatonic minor are detailed below in the EDCAG octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the E pentatonic minor in the
EDCAG octaves style.
EDCAG octaves - E pentatonic minor box shapes
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- 6Em4Em1
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1 at 12
- 6Em4Em1
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1 at 12
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