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

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Tosin Abasi

Ibanez Tam 100

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8-string guitar C major arpeggio (3 notes per string) box shapes

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

8-string octave logos

NOTE: Tosin Abasi tunes his 8-string Ibanez TAM100 to EBEADGBE (which is the equivalent of dropped D tuning on a 6-string) the BAGED octaves method for this tuning is explained in BLOGoZON No.204.

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

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 C major arpeggio box shapes (three notes per string) on
8-string guitar now follows:-

8-string CAGED octaves logo

The 8-string guitar octave sequence in both the Guitar Pro and CAGED octaves styles is shown for
C natural in the diagrams that follows:-

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8-string guitar logo C natural

The diagram that follows shows all of the C major arpeggio notes plotted over the 8-string guitar's fretboard

in both the Guitar Pro and CAGED octaves styles:-

Guitar Pro 6 fingerboard

8-string fretboard C arpeggio 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 arpeggio are detailed below for the
8-string guitar in the CAGED octaves manner:-

8-string fretboard C arpeggio intervals

The table and tabbed panel below details all seven box shapes for the C major arpeggio (three notes per string) for the 8-string guitar in the CAGED octaves style.


8-string guitar C major arpeggio (3 notes per string) box shapes

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