Octave Method for 6-String Guitar : Major Scales & Arpeggios
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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DCAGE octaves (EADGBE : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
D minor arpeggio (3 notes per string) : General
In BLOGoZON No.286 the box shapes for the D minor arpeggio were presented using
the DCAGE octaves methodology.
In this BLOGoZON we look at the D minor arpeggio, again, but with 3nps shapes and join them all together to form one long DCAGE octaves chain.
The diagram that follows shows all seven of the DCAGE octaves shapes for use with
the three notes per string patterns for a 6-string guitar tuned to standard EADGBE :-
The conjoined DCAGE octaves sequence is shown for D natural in the diagram that follows:-
GuitarPro6 fingerboard : D natural octaves
The diagrams that follow show all of the D minor arpeggio notes plotted over the 6-string guitar's fretboard in the DCAGE octaves and GuitarPro6 styles:-
GuitarPro6 fingerboard : D minor arpeggio
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 D minor arpeggio are detailed below in the DCAGE octaves manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all seven 3 notes per string box shapes for the
D minor arpeggio in the
DCAGE octaves style.
DCAGE octaves (EADGBE : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
D minor arpeggio (3 notes per string) box shapes : pdf
DCAGE octaves (EADGBE : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
D minor arpeggio (3nps) box shapes : YouTube videos
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 5Am3Gm1
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 6Em4Dm2
- 4Dm2 at 12
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 5Am3Gm1
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 6Em4Dm2
- 4Dm2 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 - 4Dm2 - being repeated at the 12th fret). The video shown to the right demonstrates the DCAGE octaves chain-linked sequence for the D minor arpeggio (3nps) box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follows:-
DCAGE octaves (EADGBE : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
D minor arpeggio (3nps) : Overall fretboard box shapes
There it is |