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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Norman Brown
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Smooth Jazz guitarist Norman Brown has been likened to a second coming of jazz-soul great George Benson. Second album After the Storm stayed on the charts for over two years and in 2002 Brown won a Grammy Award for his instrumental track Just Chillin' |
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That's the way love goes
After the storm
Interview and George Benson concert
Affirmation
Lydian
Take me there
After the love has gone
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E major scale box shapes
This issue demonstrates the E MAJOR 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 major scale 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 major scale are detailed below in the
EDCAG octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the E major arpeggio in the
EDCAG octaves style.
EDCAG octaves - E major scale box shapes
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- 6E4E1 with gaps
- 4D2
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1 at 12
- 6E4E1 virtual fret
- 4D2
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1 at 12
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After the storm....Zon Brookes |
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