Octave Method for Low E : 4-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
|
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. |
|
Louis Johnson
|
Louis Johnson is the 4-string funk behind Michael Jackson. |
Stomp - VEVO
Stomp - playalong with Dan the Welshy
Stomp - playalong with MrDamo123
>
Star Licks video
Off the Wall - playalong
Brothers Johnson - Stomp
|
|
|
|
A minor arpeggio and A minor arpeggio box shapes
In BLOGoZON No.36 the box shapes for the A NATURAL MINOR SCALE were presented using the AGEDC4BASS methodology - this is the CAGED guitar system adapted and improved for bass guitar. |
|
In this weeks BLOGoZON the box shapes for the A natural minor scale are revisited but this time the undelying 3-note chord/arpeggio is presented i.e. A minor.
Hence the AGEDC4BASS sequence is shown for A natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagrams that follow show all of the A natural minor scale notes plotted over the 4-string bass's fretboard in both the 
and AGEDC4BASS 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 A natural minor scale are detailed below in the AGEDC4BASS and GuitarPro5 manner:-
All scales and modes have an underlying triad - 3 note chord - that defines their basic tonality.
In the case of the A natural minor scale this is the A minor arpeggio - hence the notes for a
A minor arpeggio are presented in both the and AGEDC4BASS styles:-
Similarly the intervals forming an A minor arpeggio are shown next:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the A natural minor scale and the
A minor arpeggio in the AGEDC4BASS style.
AGEDC4BASS - A natural minor scale box shapes
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
- 3Am1
- 4Gm1
- 4Em2
- 2Dm*
- 3Cm*
- 3Am1 at 12
- 3Am1
- 4Gm1
- 4Em2
- 2Dm*
- 3Cm*
- 3Am1 at 12
AGEDC octaves - A minor arpeggio box shapes
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
- 3Am1
- 4Gm1
- 4Em2
- 2Dm*
- 3Cm*
- 3Am1 at 12
- 3Am1
- 4Gm1
- 4Em2
- 2Dm*
- 3Cm*
- 3Am1 at 12
|
Stomp...Zon Brookes |
|
