Octave Method for 6-String Guitar : Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Six String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for 6-string 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. |
Paperbook Book :Octave Method for 6-String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for 6-string guitar based on an instrument specific modification of the CAGED guitar method, using octave shapes rather than open position chord shapes for ease and simplicity of use. |
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Collings I-35 Deluxe
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Collings I-35 Deluxe Part 2
Collings I-35 Deluxe Part 1
Collings I-35 Deluxe Part 3
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6 string guitar (EADGBE - standard tuning)
C octatonic major-minor scale - general
This weeks BLOGoZON looks at the C octatonic major-minor scale for 6-string guitar in standard tuning.
The CAGED octaves sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagrams that follow show all of the C octatonic major-minor scale notes plotted over the 6-string guitar's EADGBE fretboard in the CAGED octaves and GuitarPro6 styles:-
NOTE No.1:- The GuitarPro6 fingerboards that follow show both E♭'s and B♭'s enharmonic equivalent spellings of D♯ and A♯ (the augmented second interval name rather than the minor third; the augmented sixth interval name rather than the minor seventh ) used elsewhere on this page.
NOTE No.2:- The C octatonic major-minor scale is also the fifth mode of the F bebop dominant scale hence the F natural is highlighted in the diagram above (rather than C natural the true root note) as GuitarPro6 does not display these modes correctly.
NOTE No.3:- The C octatonic major-minor scale is an amalgamation of the C pentatonic major and
C pentatonic minor scales; GuitarPro6 diagrams of both follow:-
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 octatonic major-minor scale are detailed below in the CAGED octaves manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the C octatonic major-minor scale in the CAGED octaves style.
6 string guitar (EADGBE - standard tuning)
C octatonic major-minor scale - box shape pdf files
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6 string guitar (EADGBE - standard tuning)
C octatonic major-minor scale - YouTube box shapes
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 4D2
- 5C2 at 12
6 string guitar (EADGBE - standard tuning)
C octatonic major-minor scale - box shapes & TAB
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 4D2
- 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 octatonic major-minor scale box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-
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6 string guitar (EADGBE - standard tuning)
C octatonic major-minor scale - overall fretboard box shapes
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Mean old world....Zon Brookes |
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