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Rusty Cooley uses both 7 (tuned BEADGBE) and 8-string (tuned BEADGBEA) guitars for super-fast shredding.

Dean RC8 demo

Prelude to Madness

Rusty Cooley describes his new Dean RC8

Dean RC8 front

Dean produce the Signature series RC7G and the RC8 (above) is in pre-production.

Conklin 8 string


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C major scale box shapes for 8 string guitar - High A tuning

The disguised CAGED octaves method for the C major scale on 8-string guitar (high A tuning) now follows:-

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The 8-string guitar CAGED octaves sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-

ZZZZZ octaves C natural

GuitarPro6 C natural octaves

The diagrams that follow show all of the C major scale notes plotted over the 8-string guitar's

fretboard in both the Guitar Pro and CAGED octaves styles:-

GuitarPro6 fingerboard

ZZZZZ octaves C major scale notes

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 C major scale are detailed below for the 8-string guitar in the CAGED octaves manner:-

ZZZZZ octaves C major scale intervals

The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the C major scale for the 8-string guitar in the CAGED octaves style.


8 string guitar - C major scale box shapes ( High A tuning)

String No.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Tuning

A

E

B

G

D

A

E

B

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7Z5Z2 pdf
8Z5Z3 pdf
8Z6Z3Z1 at 12 pdf

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  • 6Z4Z1
  • 7Z4Z2
  • 7Z5Z2
  • 8Z5Z3
  • 8Z6Z3Z1 at 12

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