Octave Method for 6-String Bass (Low B)
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Six String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 6-string bass |
Paperbook Book :Octave Method for Low B : 6-String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 6-String Bass |
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Roscoe Century Standard 6+ Fretless
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BCAGED octaves (BEADGC : 6-string bass standard tuning)
C major scale (3 notes per string) : General
In BLOGoZON No.269 the box shapes for the C major scale were presented using
the BCAGED octaves methodology - this is the CAGED octaves guitar system adapted and improved for 6-string bass.
In this BLOGoZON we look at the C major scale, again, but with 3nps shapes and join them all together to form one long BCAGED octaves chain.
The diagram that follows shows all seven of the BCAGED octaves shapes for use with
the three notes per string patterns for a 6-string bass tuned to BEADGC :-
The conjoined BAGED octaves sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
GuitarPro6 fingerboard : C natural octaves
The diagrams that follow show all of the C major scale notes plotted over the 6-string bass' fretboard in the BCAGED octaves and GuitarPro6 styles:-
GuitarPro6 fingerboard : C major scale
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 BCAGED octaves manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all seven box shapes for the
C major scale in the
BCAGED octaves style.
BCAGED octaves (BEADGC : 6-string bass standard tuning)
C major scale (3 notes per string) box shapes : pdf
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BCAGED octaves (BEADGC : 6-string bass standard tuning)
C major scale (3 notes per string) box shapes : YouTube videos
- 6B4C1
- 6B4A2
- 4A2
- 5G2
- 5E3
- 5E3D1
- 6D3D1
- 6B4C1 at 12
- 6B4C1
- 6B4A2
- 4A2
- 5G2
- 5E3
- 5E3D1
- 6D3D1
- 6B4C1 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 - 6B4C1 - being repeated at the 12th fret). The video shown to the right demonstrates the BCAGED octaves 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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BCAGED octaves (BEADGC : 6-string bass standard tuning)
C major scale : Overall fretboard box shapes
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Happy house |
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Keep your thumb on the back of the neck kid!
