Octave Method for Low B : 5-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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Sting
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Message in a Bottle - Tokyo 2008
"Message in a Bottle" 1st time live
Can't Stand Losing You (HD) Live 1978 at Old Grey Whistle Test
Roxanne live 1979
The Police - So Lonely (HP 1979)
The Police - Every Breath You Take (live Japan 2008)
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C major-minor arpeggio box shapes for 5 string bass
This issue demonstrates the C major-minor arpeggio 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-minor arpeggio 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-minor arpeggio are detailed below in the ZZZZZ octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the C major-minor arpeggio in the
ZZZZZ octaves style.
5-string bass C major-minor arpeggio box shapes
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- 5Z3
- 3Z1
- 4Z1
- 4Z2
- 5Z2
- 5Z3 at 12
- 5Z3
- 3Z1
- 4Z1
- 4Z2
- 5Z2
- 5Z3 at 12
Once the individual box shapes have been assimilated all five shapes should be linked together and played in one continuous exercise (with the first shape - 5Z3 - being repeated at the 12th fret). The video shown to the right demonstrates the CAGED octaves chain-linked sequence for the C major minor arpeggio box shapes. |
The complete tab for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follows:-
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