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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Book: Octave Method for Low E: 4-string bass Fretboard navigation method for Low B : 5-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.  |
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Bobby Watson
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Bobby Watson was the bass-force behind the band Rufus. Bobby also provided the bass for the Rodney Temperton penned mega-hit single Rock with you from the 1979 |
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Rufus with Chaka Khan 1974.
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Tell Me Something Good 1974
Rock with you bass playalong
Bobby Watson talks about his Fodera Mutt Bass
Michael Jackson - Rock With You - LIVE! 1981
"Ain't Nobody" (Live) - Chaka Khan - May 27, 2012
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CAGED4BASS - C major/minor arpeggio box shapes
In this BLOGoZON we take a look at the arpeggio that under-lines the |
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Hence the CAGED4BASS sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
The notes of the C major-minor arpeggio are presented below in the CAGED4BASS style:-
As always a more long term solution to fretboard navigation is to see 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
CAGED4BASS manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the C major-minor arpeggio in the CAGED4BASS style.
CAGED4BASS - C major/minor blues scale box shapes
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- 3C*
- 3A1
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 2D*
- 3C* at 12
- 3C*
- 3A1
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 2D*
- 3C* 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 - 3C* - being repeated at the 12th fret). The video shown to the right demonstrates the CAGED4BASS 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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Let that rhythm get into you....Zon Brookes |
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