Octave Method for Low B : 5-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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C major blues scale box shapes for 5 string bass
This issue demonstrates the MAJOR BLUES SCALE box shape for 5-string bass with the all important orange letters omitted.
The CAGED octaves sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagrams that follows show all of the C major blues scale notes plotted over the 5-string bass' fretboard in the ZZZZZ octaves style:-
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 blues scale are detailed below in the ZZZZZ octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the C major blues scale in the
ZZZZZ octaves style.
5-string bass C major blues scale box shapes
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- 5Z3
- 3Z1
- 4Z1
- 4Z2
- 5Z2
- 5Z3 at 12
- 5Z3
- 3Z1
- 4Z1
- 4Z2
- 5Z2
- 5Z3 at 12
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