Octave Method for Drop A : 7-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios
eBook :Octave Method for Seven String Drop A Guitar Fretboard navigation method for Drop A : |
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AGEDC octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
A minor-diminished arpeggio : General
This weeks BLOGoZON looks at the A minor-diminished arpeggio for 7-string guitar in Drop A tuning.
Below the AGEDB octaves for Drop A sequence is shown for A natural in the diagram that follows:-
GuitarPro7 fingerboard : A natural octaves
The diagrams that follow show all of the A minor-diminished arpeggio notes plotted over the
7-string guitar's AEADGBE
fretboard in the AGEDB octaves and GuitarPro7 styles:-
GuitarPro7 fingerboard : A minor arpeggio
GuitarPro7 fingerboard : A diminished arpeggio
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
A minor-diminished arpeggio are detailed below in the AGEDB octaves manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the
A minor-diminished arpeggio in the
AGEDB octaves style for Drop A tuning.
AGEDB octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
A minor-diminished arpeggio : YouTube videos & pdf files
AGEDA octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
A minor-diminished arpeggio : Box shapes on YouTube
- 7Am5Am3
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 4Dm2
- 7Bm5Bm2
- 7Am5Am3 at 12
AGEDB octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
A minor-diminished arpeggio : Box shapes & TAB
- 7Am5Am3
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 4Dm2
- 7Bm5Bm2
- 7Am5Am3 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 - 7Am5Am3 - being repeated at the 12th fret). |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-
AGEDB octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
A minor-diminished arpeggio
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf
AGEDA octaves (Drop A : 7-string guitar)
A minor-diminished arpeggio : Overall fretboard box shapes
Let's get it on ....Zon Brookes |