Octave Method for 8-string Guitar (Low F#)
Major Scales & Arpeggios

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Octave Method for Eight String Guitar

Fretboard navigation method for 8-string guitar
(Low F#) 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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Octave Method for Low F# : 8-String Guitar

Fretboard navigation method for 8-string guitar
(Low F#) 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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BAF#GED octaves : 8-string guitar in low F# (F#BEADGBE)
C major arpeggio : General

This weeks BLOGoZON looks at the C major scale for 8-string guitar in Low F# tuning.

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Below the BAF#GED octaves for Low F# sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-

BAF#GED octaves C natural fretboard

GuitarPro6 C natural octaves

The diagrams that follow show all of the C major arpeggio notes plotted over the 8-string guitar's F#BEADGBE fretboard in the BAF#GED octaves (Low F#) and GuitarPro6 styles:-

BAF#GED fretboard C major arpeggio notes

GuitarPro6 C major 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 C major arpeggio are detailed below in the BAF#GED octaves manner:-

BAF#GED octaves fretboard C major arpeggio intervals

The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the C major arpeggio in the
BAF#GED octaves style for low F# tuning.

BAF#GED octaves : 8-string guitar in low F# (F#BEADGBE)
C major arpeggio box shapes

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BAF#GED octaves (Low G) C major arpeggio : 7B5B2 box shape pdf
BAF#GED octaves (Low G) C major arpeggio : 8A5A3 box shape pdf
BAF#GED octaves (Low G) C major arpeggio : 8F#6G3G1 box shape pdf
BAF#GED octaves (Low G) C major arpeggio : 6E4E1 box shape pdf
BAF#GED octaves (Low G) C major arpeggio : 7D4D2 box shape pdf
BAF#GED octaves (Low G) C major arpeggio : 7B5B2 box shape at 12 pdf

BAF#GED octaves : 8-string guitar in low F# (F#BEADGBE)
C ionian mode (major scale) box shapes

  • 7B5B2
  • 8A5A3
  • 8F#6G3G1
  • 6E4E1
  • 7D4D2
  • 7B5B2 at 12

GuitarPro6 (8 string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 7B5B2 box shape

GuitarPro6 (8 string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 8A5A3 box shape

GuitarPro6 (8 string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 8F#6G3G1 box shape

GuitarPro6 (8 string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 6E4E1 box shape

GuitarPro6 (8 string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 7D4D2 box shape

GuitarPro6 (8 string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 7B5B2 box shape at 12

BAF#GED octaves : 8-string guitar in low F# (F#BEADGBE)
C ionian mode (major scale) box shapes

  • 7B5B2
  • 7A5A3
  • 6G3G1
  • 6E4E1
  • 4D2
  • 7B5B2 at 12

BAF#GED octaves (8-string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 7B5B2 box shape

BAF#GED octaves (8-string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 8A5A3 box shape

BAF#GED octaves (8-string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 8F#6G3G1 box shape

BAF#GED octaves (8-string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 6E4E1 box shape

BAF#GED octaves (8-string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 7D4D2 box shape

BAF#GED octaves (8-string : Low G) C major arpeggio : 7B5B2 box shape at 12

Once the individual box shapes have been assimilated all five shapes should be linked together and played in one continuous exercise (with the first shape - 7B5B2 - being repeated at the 12th fret).

The video shown to the right demonstrates the BAF#GED octaves chain-linked sequence for the C major arpeggio box shapes.

The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-

GuitarPro7 TAB: C major arpeggio (Low F#) box shapes

The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-

BAF#GED Low G: 8 string - C major arpeggio box shapes

BAF#GED octaves : 8-string guitar in low F# (F#BEADGBE)
C major arpeggio
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf

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C major arpeggio 8-string low G box shapes pdf

C major arpeggio 8-string Low G box shapes TAB pdfC major arpeggio 8-string Low G box shapes TAB pdf

BAF#GED octaves : 8-string guitar in low F# (F#BEADGBE)
C major arpeggio : Overall fretboard box shapes

BAF#GED octaves (Low G) fingerboard C major arppegio notes pdf

BAF#GED octaves (Low G) fingerboard C major arppegio intervals pdf

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