Octave Method for Low E : 4-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Four String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 4-string bass 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. |
Paperbook Book :CAGED4BASS : Octave Method for 4-String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 4-string bass guitar 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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Paul Denman
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Paul Denman is the long standing bass player for Sade |
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Sade 1984 Your Love is King Live
Sade 1985 Jezebel Live
Sade - Hang On to Your Love - Montreux Jazz Festival (1984)
How To Play Bass Guitar - Your Love Is King - Sade - Paul Denman
Sade: Smooth Operator, Live in Munich 1984
Sade - No Ordinary Love
Sade - Never As Good As The First Time
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In BLOGoZON No.39 the box shapes for the A pentatonic minor scale were presented using the AGEDC4BASS methodology - this is the CAGED guitar system adapted and improved for minor scales and arpeggios on 4-string bass guitar. |
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In this BLOGoZON we take a closer look at the A pentatonic minor scale box shapes and join them all together to form one long AGEDC4BASS chain.
Hence the AGEDC4BASS sequence is shown for A natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all of the A pentatonic minor scale notes plotted over the entire fretboard for the 4-string bass guitar in the AGEDC4BASS style:-
Once again 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 pentatonic minor are detailed below in the AGEDC4BASS manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below detail all five box shapes for an A pentatonic minor in the AGEDC4BASS style.
AGEDC4BASS - A pentatonic minor scale box shapes
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- 3Am1
- 4Gm1
- 4Em2
- 2Dm*
- 3Cm*
- 3Am1 at 12
- 3Am1
- 4Gm1
- 4Em2
- 2Dm*
- 3Cm*
- 3Am1 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 - 3Am1 - being repeated at the 12th fret). The video shown to the right demonstrates the AGEDC4BASS chain-linked sequence for the A pentatonic minor scale box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follows:-
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Love is stronger than pride....Zon Brookes |
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