Octave Method for Low E : 4-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Four String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 4-string bass 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 :CAGED4BASS : Octave Method for 4-String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 4-string bass 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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Billy Sheehan
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Arpeggios
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C major scale and C major arpeggio box shapes
In BLOGoZON No.34 the box shapes for the C MAJOR SCALE were presented using the CAGED4BASS methodology - this is the CAGED guitar system adapted and improved for bass guitar. |
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In this weeks BLOGoZON the box shapes for the C major scale are revisited but this time the undelying
3-note chord/arpeggio is presented i.e. C major.
Hence the CAGED4BASS sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagrams that follow show all of the C major scale notes plotted over the 4-string bass's fretboard in both the 
and CAGED4BASS 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 major scale are detailed below in the
CAGED4BASS manner:-
All scales and modes have an underlying triad - 3 note chord - that defines their basic tonality.
In the case of the C major scale this is the C major arpeggio - hence the notes for a C major arpeggio
are presented in both the and CAGED4BASS 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 major scale and the
C major arpeggio in the CAGED4BASS style.
CAGED4BASS - C major scale box shapes
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- 3C*
- 3A1
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 2D*
- 3C* at 12
- 3C*
- 3A1
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 2D*
- 3C* at 12
CAGED octaves - C major arpeggio box shapes
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- 3C*
- 3A1
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 2D*
- 3C* at 12
- 3C*
- 3A1
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 2D*
- 3C* at 12
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