Octave Method for 6-String Bass (Low B)
Major Scales & Arpeggios


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Octave Method for Six String Bass


Fretboard navigation method for 6-string bass
(Low B) 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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Octave Method for Low B : 6-String Bass


Fretboard navigation method for 6-String Bass
(Low B) 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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A natural minor scale box shapes for 6 string bass

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This issue demonstrates the A NATURAL MINOR SCALE box shape for 6-string bass with the all important orange letters omitted.

The CAGED octaves sequence is shown for A natural in the diagram that follows:-

ZZZZZZ octaves A natural

GuitarPro6 A natural octaves

The diagrams that follows show all of the A natural minor scale notes plotted over the 6-string bass' fretboard in both the Guitar Pro and CAGED octaves styles:-

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ZZZZZZ octaves A natural minor scale notes

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
CAGED octaves manner:-

ZZZZZZ octaves A natural minor scale intervals

The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the A natural minor scale in the
CAGED octaves style.


6-string bass A natural minor scale box shapes

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