Octave Method for Low B : 7-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Seven String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for 7-string guitar |
Paperbook Book :Octave Method for Low B : 7-String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for 7-string guitar |
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Stephen Carpenter plus the ESP LTD SC-207
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Stephen Carpenter is the ESP STEF-B7 equipped guitarist for metal band the Deftones. However ESP also produce the budget 7-string SC-207 with a 25½" scale length rather than the baritone 27" used on the ESP STEF-B7.
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Deftones - Diamond Eyes (Official Video)
Deftones - Hexagram (Video)
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A minor blues scale box shapes for 7 string guitar
The disguised CAGED octaves method for the A minor blues scale on 7-string guitar now follows:-
The 7-string guitar CAGED octaves sequence is shown for A minor blues scale in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all of the A minor blues scale notes plotted over the 7-string guitar's
fretboard in both the 
and EDCAG 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 for the
7-string guitar in the CAGED octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the A minor blues scale for the
7-string guitar in the CAGED octaves style.
7-string guitar A minor blues scale box shapes
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- 5Zm3
- 6Zm3Zm1
- 6Zm4Zm1
- 7Zm4Zm2
- 7Zm5Zm2
- 5Zm3 at 12
- 5Zm3
- 6Zm3Zm1
- 6Zm4Zm1
- 7Zm4Zm2
- 7Zm5Zm2
- 5Zm3 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 - 5Zm3 - being repeated at the 12th fret). The video shown to the right demonstrates the CAGED octaves chain-linked sequence for the A minor blues scale box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-
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