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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AGEDC4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
A minor scale (3 notes per string) : General
In BLOGoZON No.36 the box shapes for the A natural minor 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. In this BLOGoZON we look at the A minor scale, again, but with 3nps shapes and join them all together to form one long AGEDC4BASS chain. |
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The diagram that follows shows all seven of the AGEDC4BASS shapes for use with the three notes per string patterns for 4-string bass guitar tuned to EADG :-
The conjoined AGEDC4BASS sequence is shown for A natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagrams that follow show all of the A natural minor scale notes plotted over the 4-string bass's fretboard in both the 
and AGEDC4BASS 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 A natural minor scale are detailed below in the AGEDC4BASS and GuitarPro5 manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the A natural minor scale
in the AGEDC4BASS style.
AGEDC4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
A minor scale (3 notes per string) box shapes : pdf
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AGEDC4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
A minor scale (3 notes per string) box shapes : YouTube videos
- 3Am1Gm
- 4Gm1
- 4Em2
- 4Em2Dm*
- 2Dm*
- 3Cm*
- 3Am1
- 3Am1Gm at 12
- 3Am1Gm
- 4Gm1
- 4Em2
- 4Em2Dm*
- 2Dm*
- 3Cm*
- 3Am1
- 3Am1Gm 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 - 3Am1Gm - being repeated at the 12th fret). The video shown to the right demonstrates the AGEDC4BASS chain-linked sequence for the A minor scale 3nps box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follows:-
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AGEDC4BASS : 4-string bass in standard EADG tuning
A minor scale : Overall fretboard box shapes
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