Octave Method for Low B : 5-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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A minor blues scale box shapes for 5 string bass
This issue further demonstrates the MINOR BLUES SCALE box shape for 5-string bass with the all important orange letters omitted.
The CAGED octaves sequence is shown for A natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagrams that follows show all of the A minor blues scale notes plotted over the 5-string bass' fretboard in both the 
and ZZZZZ octaves styles:-
NOTE:- The GuitarPro6 fingerboard shows E♭'s enharmonic equivalent spelling D# (the augmented fourth interval name rather than the diminished fifth used elsewhere on this page).
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 minor blues scale are detailed below in the ZZZZZ octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the A minor blues scale in the
ZZZZZ octaves style.
5-string bass A minor blues scale box shapes
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- 3Zm1
- 4Zm1
- 4Zm2
- 5Zm2
- 5Zm3
- 3Zm1 at 12
- 3Zm1
- 4Zm1
- 4Zm2
- 5Zm2
- 5Zm3
- 3Zm1 at 12
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