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