Octave Method for Low B : 5-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Low B : 5-String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 5-string bass |
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Dream Theater - Pull me under (live)
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John Myung is the 4, 5 and 6-string bass playing virtuso for Dream Theater.
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A pentatonic minor scale box shapes for 5 string bass
The image that follows shows what Guitar Pro 6 describes as the Aeolian Pentatonic (5th mode of major pentatonic) - more commonly known as the A pentatonic minor scale. As usual this is totally indigestible by most bass players (from both a naming and presentation point of view) and needs to be broken down into more manageable chunks.
The diagram that follows shows all of the A pentatonic minor scale notes plotted over the 5-string bass's fretboard in the CAGED octaves style:-
With digestability and future utilisation in mind, i.e. playing and remembering the dam thing, the disguised CAGED octaves method for the A pentatonic minor scale box shapes on 5-string bass now follows:-
The 5-string bass CAGED octaves sequence is shown for A natural in the diagram that follows:-
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 A pentatonic minor scale are detailed below for the 5-string bass in the CAGED octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the A pentatonic minor scale for the
5-string bass in the CAGED octaves style.
5 string bass - A pentatonic minor scale box shapes
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- 3Zm1
- 4Zm1
- 4Zm2
- 5Zm2
- 5Zm3
- 3Zm1 at 12
- 3Zm1
- 4Zm1
- 4Zm2
- 5Zm2
- 5Zm3
- 3Zm1 at 12
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The test that stumped them all |
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