Rusty Cooley
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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
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Dean produce the Signature series RC7G and the RC8 (above) is in pre-production. |
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Diego Salvetti
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:-
The 8-string guitar CAGED octaves sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagrams that follow show all of the C major scale notes plotted over the 8-string guitar's
fretboard in both the 
and CAGED 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 C major scale are detailed below for the 8-string guitar in the CAGED octaves manner:-
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)
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4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
Tuning |
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A |
E |
B |
G |
D |
A |
E |
B |
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- 8Z6Z3Z1
- 6Z4Z1
- 7Z4Z2
- 7Z5Z2
- 8Z5Z3
- 8Z6Z3Z1 at 12
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War of the Angels ..............Zon Brookes |
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