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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Sandberg California JM4
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CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
C major scale (3 notes per string) : General
In BLOGoZON No.111 the box shapes for the C major scale and C major arpeggio were presented using
the CAGED4BASS methodology - this is the CAGED octaves guitar system adapted and improved for bass guitar. |
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The diagram that follows shows all seven of the CAGED4BASS shapes for use with the three notes per string patterns for 4-string bass guitar tuned to EADG :-
The conjoined CAGED4BASS 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 4-string bass's fretboard in both the 
and CAGED4BASS styles:-
As always 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 C major scale are detailed below in the
CAGED4BASS manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all seven box shapes for the C major scale in the CAGED4BASS style.
CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
C major scale (3 notes per string) box shapes : pdf
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CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
C major scale (3 notes per string) box shapes : YouTube videos
- 3C*
- 3A1
- 3A1G
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 4E2D*
- 2D*
- 3C* at 12
- 3C*
- 3A1
- 3A1G
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 4E2D*
- 2D*
- 3C* at 12
Once the individual box shapes have been assimilated all seven 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 scale 3nps box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follows:-
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CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
C major scale : Overall fretboard box shapes
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