Octave Method for Drop E : 8-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios

Octave Method for Drop E: 8-String Guitar eBook

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Octave Method for Drop E Eight String Guitar

Fretboard navigation method for Drop E :
8-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.
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Octave Method for Drop E : 8-String Guitar

Fretboard navigation method for Drop E :
8-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.

Octave Method for Drop E: 8-String Guitar Paper Book

MTD Norm Stockton Saratoga

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DBAGE octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
D minor arpeggio : General

In this BLOGoZON we take a look at the D minor arpeggio box shapes and join them all together for
8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE) tuning to form one long DBAGE octaves chain.

DBAGE octaves: 8-string Drop E

The diagram that follows shows all five of the DBAGE octaves shapes for use with
the standard patterns for a 8-string guitar tuned to Drop E (EBEADGBE) :-

DBAGE octaves : octave shapes

The DBAGE octaves sequence is shown for D natural in the diagram that follows:-

DBAGE octaves fingerboard : D natural octaves

GuitarPro6 fingerboard : D natural octaves

GuitarPro6 D natural octaves

The diagrams that follow show all of the D minor arpeggio notes plotted over the
8-string Drop E guitar's fretboard in the DBAGE octaves and GuitarPro6 styles:-

DBAGE octaves fingerboard D minor arpeggio notes

GuitarPro6 fingerboard : D minor arpeggio

GuitarPro6 8-string Drop E: 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 DBAGE octaves manner:-

DBAGE octaves fingerboard D minor arpeggio intervals

The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the
D minor arpeggio in the DBAGE octaves style.

DBAGE octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
D minor arpeggio : YouTube videos & pdf files

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DBAGE octaves (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 7Dm4Dm2 box shape pdf
DBAGE octaves (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 7Bm5Bm2 box shape pdf
DBAGE octaves (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 5Am3 box shape pdf
DBAGE octaves (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 8Gm6Gm3Gm1 box shape pdf
DBAGE octaves (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 8Em6Em3Em1 box shape pdf
DBAGE octaves (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 7Dm4Dm2 box shape at 12 pdf

DBAGE octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
D minor arpeggio : Box shapes on YouTube

  • 7Dm4Dm2
  • 7Bm5Bm2
  • 5Am3
  • 8Gm6Gm3Gm1
  • 8Em6Em4Em1
  • 7Dm4Dm2 at 12

GuitarPro6 (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 7Dm4Dm2 box shape pdf

GuitarPro6 (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 7Bm5Bm2 box shape pdf

GuitarPro6 (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 5Am3 box shape pdf

GuitarPro6 (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 8Gm6Gm3Gm1 box shape pdf

GuitarPro6 (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 8Em6Em4Em1 box shape pdf

GuitarPro6 (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 7Dm4Dm2 box shape at 12 pdf

DBAGE octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
D minor arpeggio : Box shapes & TAB

  • 7Dm4Dm2
  • 7Bm5Bm2
  • 5Am3
  • 8Gm6Gm3Gm1
  • 8Em6Em4Em1
  • 7Dm4Dm2 at 12

DBAGE octaves (8-string : Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 7Dm4Dm2 box shape

DBAGE octaves (8-string : Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 7Bm5Bm2 box shape

DBAGE octaves (8-string : Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 5Am3 box shape

DBAGE octaves (8-string : Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 8Gm6Gm3Gm1 box shape

DBAGE octaves (8-string : Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 8Em6Em4Em1 box shape

DBAGE octaves (8-string : Drop E) D minor arpeggio : 7Dm4Dm2 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 - 7Dm4Dm2 - being repeated at the 12th fret).

The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-

GuitarPro6 (8-string: Drop E) D minor arpeggio box shapes TAB

The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-

D minor arpeggio (8-string: Drop E) box shapes

DBAGE octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
D minor arpeggio
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf

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DBAGE octaves D minor arpeggio box shapes pdf

DBAGE octaves D minor arpeggio box shapes TAB pdfDBAGE octaves D minor arpeggio box shapes TAB pdf

DBAGE octaves : 8-string guitar in Drop E (EBEADGBE)
D minor arpeggio : Overall fretboard box shapes

DCAGE octaves D minor arpeggio box shapes : entire fretboard notes

DCAGE octaves D minor arpeggio box shapes : entire fretboard intervals

MTD Norm Stockton Saratoga

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