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 : |
Paperbook Book :Octave Method for Drop A : 7-String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for Drop A : |
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MARUSZCZYK Sputnik 5A Ziracote Top
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BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C major blues scale : General
This weeks BLOGoZON looks at the C major blues 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 blues scale notes plotted over the
7-string guitar's Drop A
fretboard in the BAGED octaves and GuitarPro7 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 blues scale are detailed below in the BAGED octaves manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the C major blues scale in the
BAGED octaves style for Drop A tuning.
BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C major blues scale box shapes
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BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C major blues scale box shapes
- 7B5B2
- 7A5A3
- 6G3G1
- 6E4E1
- 4D2
- 7B5B2 at 12
BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C major blues 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 complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-
BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C major blues scale
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf
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BAGED octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
C major blues scale : Overall fretboard box shapes
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Down to earth....Zon Brookes |
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