Chris Letchford
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Chris Letchford is guitarist for Scale the Summit using 6, 7 and 8-string (tuned BEADGBEG) guitars for super-fast shredding, tapping and melodic arpeggiation. |
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The Collective
8-string demo
Glacial Planet lesson
Guitar World interview
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C major arpeggio box shapes for 8 string guitar - High A tuning
The disguised CAGED octaves method for the C major arpeggio on 8-string guitar (high A tuning) now follows:-
The 8-string guitar CAGED octaves sequence is shown for C major arpeggio in the diagram that follows:-
The diagrams that follow show all of the C major arpeggio 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 arpeggio 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 arpeggio box shapes ( High A tuning)
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6 |
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8 |
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A |
E |
B |
G |
D |
A |
E |
B |
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