Octave Method for Drop D : 6-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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6 string guitar (DADGBE - Drop D tuning)
C major scale box shapes
This weeks BLOGoZON looks at the C major scale for 6-string guitar in Drop D tuning.
Below the CAGED octaves for drop D sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagrams that follow show all of the C major scale notes plotted over the 6-string guitar's DADGBE fretboard in the CAGED octaves (drop D) and GuitarPro6 styles:-
As always a more long term solution to fretboard navigation is to see scales 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 scale are detailed below in the CAGED octaves manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the C major scale in the CAGED octaves style.
6 string guitar (DADGBE - Drop D tuning)
C major scale box shapes
6 string guitar (DADGBE - Drop D tuning)
C major scale box shapes
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 3G1
- 6E4E1
- 6D4D2
- 5C2 at 12
6 string guitar (DADGBE - Drop D tuning)
C major scale box shapes
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 3G1
- 6E4E1
- 6D42
- 5C2 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 - 5C2 - being repeated at the 12th fret). The video shown to the right demonstrates the CAGED octaves chain-linked sequence for the C major scale box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-
6 string guitar (DADGBE - Drop D tuning)
C major scale box shapes
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