Octave Method for Drop D : 6-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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CAGED octaves (Drop D : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
C major-minor arpeggio : General
In this BLOGoZON we take a look at the C major blues box shapes and join them all together for
6-string guitar in standard Drop D tuning to form one long CAGED octaves chain.
The CAGED octaves sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
GuitarPro6 fingerboard : C natural octaves

The diagrams that follow show all of the C major-minor arpeggio notes plotted over the 6-string bass' fretboard in the CAGED octaves style:-
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-minor arpeggio are detailed below in the
CAGED octaves manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the C major-minor arpeggio in the
CAGED octaves style.
CAGED octaves (Drop D : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
C major-minor arpeggio : YouTube videos & pdf files
CAGED octaves (Drop D : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
C major-minor arpeggio : Box shapes on YouTube
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 3G1
- 6E4E1
- 6D4D2
- 5C2 at 12
CAGED octaves (Drop D : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
C major-minor arpeggio : Box shapes & TAB
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 3G1
- 6E4E1
- 6D4D2
- 5C2 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 - 5C2 - being repeated at the 12th fret). The video shown to the right demonstrates the CAGED octaves chain-linked sequence for the C major-minor arpeggio box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-
CAGED octaves (Drop D : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
C major-minor arpeggio
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf
CAGED octaves (Drop D : 6-string guitar standard tuning)
C major-minor arpeggio : Overall fretboard box shapes
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