Octave Method for 6-String Guitar : Major Scales & Arpeggios

CAGED octaves method for 6-string guitar

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Octave Method for Six String Guitar

Fretboard navigation method for 6-string guitar based on an instrument specific modification of the CAGED guitar method, using linked octave shapes rather than open position chord shapes for ease and simplicity of use.
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Octave Method for 6-String Guitar

Fretboard navigation method for 6-string guitar based on an instrument specific modification of the CAGED guitar method, using octave shapes rather than open position chord shapes for ease and simplicity of use.

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A pentatonic minor scale box shapes

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This issue demonstrates the PENTATONIC MINOR SCALE box shapes.

The AGEDC octaves sequence is shown for A natural in the diagram that follows:-

AGEDC octaves A natural

GuitarPro6 A natural octaves

The diagrams that follow show all of the A pentatonic minor scale notes plotted over the 6-string guitar's

fretboard in both the Guitar Pro and AGEDC octaves styles:-

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AGEDC octaves a pentatonic minor 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 A pentatonic minor scale are detailed below for the 6-string guitar in the AGEDC octaves manner:-

AGEDC octaves A pentatonic minor intervals

The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the A pentatonic minor scale for the
6-string guitar in the AGEDC octaves style.

6 string guitar - A pentatonic minor scale box shapes

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