Octave Method for Drop A : 7-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C major arpeggio box shapes
This weeks BLOGoZON looks at the C major arpeggio 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 diagrams that follow show all of the C major arpeggio notes plotted over the
7-string guitar's AEADGBE
fretboard in the BAGED octaves 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 major arpeggio are detailed below in the BAGED octaves manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the
C major arpeggio in the
BAGED octaves style for Drop A tuning.
BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C major arpeggio box shapes
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BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C major arpeggio box shapes
- 7B5B2
- 7A5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 4D2
- 7B5B2 at 12
BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C major arpeggio 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 major arpeggio 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 major arpeggio
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf
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BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C major arpeggio box shapes
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