Octave Method for Low E : 4-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Four String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 4-string bass 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. |
Paperbook Book :CAGED4BASS : Octave Method for 4-String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 4-string bass 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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Mayones Jabba 4 - Hadrien Feraud
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CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in Low E (EADG tuning)
C major scale (ionian mode) : General
In this BLOGoZON we take a look at the C major scale (ionian mode) |
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Hence the CAGED4BASS sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all five of the CAGED4BASS shapes for use with the
box shapes for a 4-string bass tuned to EADG :-
The diagrams that follows show all of the C major scale (ionian mode) notes plotted over the
4-string bass guitar's
fretboard in the CAGED4BASS 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 scale (ionian mode) are detailed below in the CAGED4BASS manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the C major scale (ionian mode)
in the
CAGED4BASS style for Low E tuning.
CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in Low E (EADG tuning)
C major scale (ionian mode) box shapes
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CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in Low E (EADG tuning)
C major scale (ionian mode) box shapes
- 3C*
- 3A1
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 2D*
- 3C* at 12
CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in Low E (EADG tuning)
C major scale (ionian mode) box shapes
- 3C*
- 3A1
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 2D*
- 3C* 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 - 3C* - being repeated at the 12th fret). The video shown to the right demonstrates the CAGED4BASS chain-linked sequence for the C major scale box shapes. |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-
CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in Low E (EADG tuning)
C major scale (ionian mode)
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf
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CAGED4BASS : 4-string bass in Low E (EADG tuning)
C major scale (ionian mode) : Overall fretboard box shapes
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Drift Away....Zon Brookes |
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