Octave Method for Drop E : 8-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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AGEDB octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
A minor arpeggio (3nps) : General
This weeks BLOGoZON looks at the A minor arpeggio (3nps)
for 8-string guitar in Drop E tuning.

Below the AGEDB octaves for Drop E sequence is shown for A natural in the diagram that follows:-


The diagram that follows shows all seven of the AGEDB octaves shapes for use with the
box shapes for a 8-string guitar tuned to EBEADGBE :-

The diagrams that follow show all of the A minor arpeggio (3nps) notes plotted over the
8-string guitar's EBEADGBE fretboard in the AGEDB octaves (Drop E) and GuitarPro6 styles:-


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 A minor arpeggio (3nps) are detailed below in the
AGEDB octaves manner:-

The tables and tabbed panels below detail all seven box shapes for the
A minor arpeggio (3nps) in the
AGEDB octaves style for Drop E tuning.
AGEDB octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
A minor arpeggio (3nps) box shapes
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AGEDB octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
A minor arpeggio (3nps) box shapes
- 5A3G1
- 8G6G3G1
- 8E6E4E1
- 8E6E4D2
- 7D4D2
- 7B5B2
- 7B5A3
- 5A3G1 at 12








AGEDB octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
A minor arpeggio (3nps) box shapes
- 5A3G1
- 8G6G3G1
- 8E6E4E1
- 8E6E4D2
- 7D4D2
- 7B5B2
- 5A3G1 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 - 5Am3Gm1 - being repeated at the 12th fret). |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-

The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-

AGEDB octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
A minor arpeggio (3nps)
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf
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AGEDB octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
A minor arpeggio (3nps)
Overall fretboard box shapes
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