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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Jaco Pastorius
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Jaco Pastorius is the fretless bass |
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Jaco Pastorius - A Portrait Of Tracy
Come On Come Over - Jaco Pastorius - MarloweDK playalong
Jaco Pastorius & Weather Report September 28 1978
Jaco Pastorius - Jam in C
Jaco Pastorius - Modern Electric Bass
WEATHER REPORT - Jaco Pastorius, solo
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In BLOGoZON No.40 the box shapes for the A minor blues 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 minor blues 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 minor blues scale notes plotted over the entire 4-string bass guitar's fretboard 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 minor blues scale are detailed below in the AGEDC4BASS manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below detail all five box shapes for the A minor blues scale in the AGEDC4BASS style.
AGEDC4BASS - A blues 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 minor blues scale box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follows:-
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Three views of a secret |
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