Octave Method for 6-String Guitar : Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :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. |
Paperbook Book :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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Misha "Bulb" Mansoor
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Misha Mansoor is lead guitarist and founding member of the Bethesda, Maryland metal band Periphery |
NAMM 2011 with Misha "Bulb" Mansoor - Day No.2
Bulb Playing "All New Material" with an EBMM JP6/VHT CLX
Bulb Playing Devil Take The Hindmost Solo (Allan Holdsworth)
Bulb Playing "Zyglrox" Through an Engl Invader 100
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C ionian mode box shapes
In BLOGoZON No.102 the box shapes for the C IONIAN MODE were presented using the CAGED octaves methodology.
In this weeks BLOGoZON the box shapes for the C ionian mode are revisited but this time the undelying
3-note chord/arpeggio is presented i.e. C major.
The easiest example of the ionian mode is rooted on C natural - as it is really the C major scale.
Hence the CAGED octaves sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagrams that follows show all of the C ionian mode notes plotted over the 6-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 ionian mode are detailed below in the
CAGED octaves manner:-
All scales and modes have an underlying triad - 3 note chord - that defines their basic tonality.
In the case of the C ionian mode this is the C major arpeggio - hence the notes for a C major arpeggio
are presented in both the and CAGED octaves styles:-
Similarly the intervals forming a C major arpeggio are shown next:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the C ionian mode and the
C major arpeggio in the CAGED octaves style.
CAGED octaves - C ionian mode box shapes
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- 5C2
- 5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 4D2
- 5C2 at 12
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 4D2
- 5C2 at 12
CAGED octaves - C major arpeggio box shapes
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- 5C2
- 5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 4D2
- 5C2 at 12
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 4D2
- 5C2 at 12
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