Octave Method for Drop A : 7-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Seven String Drop A Guitar Fretboard navigation method for Drop A : |
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BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C pentatonic major scale : General
This weeks BLOGoZON looks at the C pentatonic major scale for 7-string guitar in Drop A tuning.
Below the BAGED octaves for Drop A sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all five of the BAGED octaves shapes for use with the
box shapes for a 7-string guitar tuned to AEADGBE :-
The diagrams that follow show all of the C major scale notes plotted over the 8-string guitar's AEADGBE fretboard in the BAGED octaves (Drop A) 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 C pentatonic major scale are detailed below in the
BAGED octaves manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the C pentatonic major scale in the
BAGED octaves style for Drop E tuning.
BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C pentatonic major scale box shapes
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BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C pentatonic major scale box shapes
- 7B5B2
- 7A5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 4D2
- 7B5B2 at 12
BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C pentatonic major scale box shapes
- 7B5B2
- 7A5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 4D2
- 7B5B2 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 BAGED octaves chain-linked sequence for the C pentatonic major scale box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-
BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C pentatonic major scale
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf
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BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C pentatonic major scale : Overall fretboard box shapes
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You're lying....Zon Brookes |
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