Octave Method for Drop E : 8-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios

Octave Method for Drop E: 8-String Guitar eBook

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Octave Method for Drop E Eight String Guitar

Fretboard navigation method for Drop E :
8-string guitar based on an instrument specific modification of the CAGED guitar method, using linked octave shapes rather than open position chord shapes for ease and simplicity of use.
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Octave Method for Drop E : 8-String Guitar

Fretboard navigation method for Drop E :
8-string guitar based on an instrument specific modification of the CAGED guitar method, using linked octave shapes rather than open position chord shapes for ease and simplicity of use.

Octave Method for Drop E: 8-String Guitar Paper Book

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AGEDB octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
A minor blues scale : General

This weeks BLOGoZON looks at the A minor blues scale for 8-string guitar in Drop E tuning.

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Below the AGEDB octaves for Drop E sequence is shown for A natural in the diagram that follows:-

AGEDB octaves: A natural fingerboard

GuitarPro6 fingerboard: A natural

The diagram that follows shows all five of the AGEDB octaves shapes for use with the
box shapes for a 8-string guitar tuned to EBEADGBE :-

8-string Drop E octave shapes

The diagrams that follow show all of the A minor blues scale notes plotted over the
8-string guitar's EBEADGBE fretboard in the AGEDB octaves and GuitarPro7 styles:-

AGEDB octaves fingerboard A minor blues scale notes

GuitarPro7 fingerboard : A minor blues scale

GuitarPro7: A minor blues scale

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 blues scale are detailed below in the AGEDB octaves manner:-

AGEDB octaves fingerboard A minor blues scale intervals

The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the
A minor blues scale in the AGEDB octaves style for Drop E tuning.

AGEDB octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
A minor blues scale box shapes

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AGEDB octaves (8-string guitar: Drop E) A minor blues scale : 5Am3 box shape pdf
AGEDB octaves (8-string guitar: Drop E) A minor blues scale : 8Gm6Gm3Gm1 box shape pdf
AGEDB octaves (8-string guitar: Drop E) A minor blues scale : 8Em6Em4Em1 box shape pdf
AGEDB octaves (8-string guitar: Drop E) A minor blues scale : 7Dm4Dm2 box shape pdf
AGEDB octaves (8-string guitar: Drop E) A minor blues scale : 7Bm5Bm2 box shape pdf
AGEDB octaves (8-string guitar: Drop E) A minor blues scale : 5Am3 box shape at 12 pdf

AGEDB octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
A minor blues scale box shapes

  • 5Am3
  • 8Gm6Gm3Gm1
  • 8Em6Em4Em1
  • 7Dm4Dm2
  • 7Bm5Bm2
  • 5Am3 at 12

GuitarPro7 (8 string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 5Am3 box shape

GuitarPro7 (8 string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 8Gm6Gm3Gm1 box shape

GuitarPro7 (8 string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 8Em6Em4Em1 box shape

GuitarPro7 (8 string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 7Dm4Dm2 box shape

GuitarPro7 (8 string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 7Bm5Bm2 box shape

GuitarPro7 (8 string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 5Am3 box shape at 12

AGEDB octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
A minor blues scale box shapes

  • 5Am3
  • 8Gm6Gm3Gm1
  • 8Em6Em4Em1
  • 7Dm4Dm2
  • 7Bm5Bm2
  • 5Am3 at 12

AGEDC octaves (8-string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 5Am3 box shape

AGEDC octaves (8-string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 8Gm6Gm4Em1 box shape

AGEDC octaves (8-string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 8Em6Em4Em1 box shape

AGEDC octaves (8-string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 7Dm4Dm2 box shape

AGEDC octaves (8-string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 7Bm5Bm2 box shape

AGEDC octaves (8-string guitar : Drop E) A minor blues scale : 5Am3 box shape 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 - 5Am3 - being repeated at the 12th fret).

The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-

A minor blues scale (8-string guitar: Drop E) box shapes TAB

The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-

A minor blues scale(8-string guitar: Drop E) box shapes

AGEDB octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
A minor blues scale
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf

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A minor blues scale (8-string guitar: Drop E) box shapes pdf

A minor blues scale (8-string guitar: Drop E) box shapes TAB pdfA minor blues scale (8-string guitar: Drop E) box shapes TAB pdf

AGEDB octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
A minor blues scale : Overall fretboard box shapes

AGEDB octaves (8-string guitar: Drop E) fingerboard A minor blues scale notes pdf

AGEDB octaves (8-string guitar: Drop E) fingerboard A minor blues scale intervals pdf

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