Meat and Potatoes Scales and Arpeggios

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MEAT & POTATOES
SCALES & ARPEGGIOS
FOR LOW G TUNED
8-STRING GUITAR

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iLLIGHT is the 8-string lead guitarist for the Djent style Maths Metal band RXYZYXR.

For the new video iLLIGHT has jumped ship from his trusty Schecter Hellraiser C8 to an Ibanez RG2228.

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C major scale 3nps box shapes for 8-string guitar

The diagram that follows shows all seven of the CAGED octaves for use with the three notes per string patterns for 8-string guitar tuned with a low G (see table):-

8-string octave logos

The CAGED octaves tuning for 8-string guitar follows:-

String No.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Tuning

E

B

G

D

A

E

B

G

The disguised CAGED octaves method for three notes per string C major scale box shapes on 8-string guitar 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 diagram that follows shows all of the C major scale notes plotted over the 8-string guitar's fretboard

in both the Guitar Pro and CAGED octaves styles:-

Guitar Pro 6 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 seven box shapes for the three notes per string C major scale for the 8-string guitar in the CAGED octaves style.

8-string guitar C major scale 3 notes per string box shapes

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