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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God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
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God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen is a traditional English Christmas Carol often played in the key of E minor. The writer of the Carol is unknown and like a lot of other famous Carols the copyright is in the public domain, hence the tab and chords are shown below for your Yuletide merriment. |
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E natural minor scale box shapes
The melody for God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen is composed from the E natural minor scale using the 6Em4Em1 octave shape at the guitar's nut.
The notes used for the God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen melody are shown on the fingerboard diagram that follows:-
The F# note on string four at fret four involves a modification of the standard moveable 6Em4Em1 box shape located at fret twelve.
A modified 6Em4Em1 box shape for the E natural minor scale is detailed in the tables below - as the moveable pattern that is located at fret twelve falls off the edge of the fingerboard when located at the guitar's nut - hence a modified fingering is used for the melody of God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen. Shown to the right is the box shape complete with a gap where the F# on string three would be if imaginary fret minus one existed. |
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This issue demonstrates the E NATURAL 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 natural mionor scale notes plotted over the guitar's fretboard in the EDCAG octaves style:-
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 natural minor are detailed below in the
EDCAG octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the E natural minor scale in the
EDCAG octaves style.
EDCAG octaves - E natural minor scale box shapes
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- 6Em4Em1 incomplete
- 6Em4Em1 modified
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1 at 12
- 6Em4Em1 incomplete
- 6Em4Em1 modified
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1 at 12
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To save us all from Satan's power, when we were gone astray....Zon Brookes |
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