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 minor-diminished arpegggio box shapes for 6 string bass

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This issue demonstrates the A minor-diminished arpeggio box shape for 6-string bass with the all important orange letters omitted.

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

GuitarPro6 A natural octaves

ZZZZZZ octaves A natural

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

GuitarPro6 a minor arpeggio

GuitarPro6 A diminished arpeggio

ZZZZZZ octaves A minor-diminished arpeggio notes

NOTE:- The GuitarPro6 fingerboard for the A diminished arpeggio shows E♭'s enharmonic equivalent spelling D# (the augmented fourth interval name rather than the diminished fifth used elsewhere on this page).

GuitarPro6 will not display the notes for an A minor-diminished arpeggio hence the Am and Adim arpeggios are shown separately - sorry!

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-diminished arpeggio are detailed below in the CAGED octaves manner:-

ZZZZZZ octaves A minor-diminished arpeggio intervals

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

6-string bass A minor-diminished arpegggio box shapes

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