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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CAGED octaves (EADGBE : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
C major scale (3 notes per string) : General
In BLOGoZON No.277 the box shapes for the C major scale were presented using
the CAGED octaves methodology - this is the standard CAGED octaves guitar system.
In this BLOGoZON we look at the C major scale, again, but with 3nps shapes and join them all together to form one long CAGED octaves chain.
The diagram that follows shows all seven of the CAGED octaves shapes for use with the three notes per string patterns for a 6-string guitar tuned to EADGBE :-
The conjoined CAGED 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 guitar's fretboard in the CAGED 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 CAGED octaves manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes
for the C major scale in the
CAGED octaves style.
CAGED octaves (EADGBE : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
C major scale (3 notes per string) box shapes : pdf
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CAGED octaves (EADGBE : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
C major scale (3 notes per string) box shapes : YouTube videos
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 5A3G1
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 6E4D2
- 4D2
- 5C2 at 12
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 5A3G1
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 6E4D2
- 4D2
- 5C2 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 - 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 3nps box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follows:-
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CAGED octaves (EADGBE : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
C major scale : Overall fretboard box shapes
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