Octave Method for Drop D : 6-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios


Octave Method for Drop D: 6-String Guitar eBook

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Octave Method for Drop D Guitar


Fretboard navigation method for Drop D :
6-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 D : 6-String Guitar


Fretboard navigation method for Drop D :
6-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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CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major blues scale : General

In this BLOGoZON we take a look at the C major blues scale and join them all together
for 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE) to form one long CAGED octaves chain.

CAGED octaves logo (6-string guitar : Drop D -DADGBE)

Below the 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE) sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows.

CAGED octaves Drop D - C natural octaves fretboard

GuitarPro6 fingerboard : C natural octaves

GuitarPro6 C natural octaves

The diagram that follows shows all five of the CAGED octaves shapes for use with the
box shapes for a 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE).

6-String Guitar (Drop D - DADGBE) : C natural octaves

The diagrams that follow show all of the C major blues scale notes plotted over the
6-string guitar's (Drop D - DADGBE) fretboard in the CAGED octaves and GuitarPro6 styles.

CAGED octaves (6-string guitar : Drop D - DADGBE) C major blues scale fretboard notes

GuitarPro7 fingerboard : C major blues scale

GuitarPro6 fingerboard :  C major 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
C major blues scale are detailed below in the CAGED octaves manner.

CAGED octaves (6-string guitar : Drop D - DADGBE) C major blues scale fretboard intervals

The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the
C major blues scale in the CAGED octaves style.


CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major blues scale : YouTube videos & pdf files

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CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 5C2 box shape pdf
CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 5A3 box shape pdf
CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 3G1 box shape pdf
CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 6E4E1 box shape pdf
CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 6D4D2 box shape pdf
CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 5C2 box shape at 12 pdf

CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major blues scale : Box shapes on YouTube

  • 5C2
  • 5A3
  • 3G1
  • 6E4E1
  • 6D4D2
  • 5C2 at 12

GuitarPro6 fingerboard C major blues scale : 5C2 box shape

GuitarPro6 fingerboard C major blues scale : 5A3 box shape

GuitarPro6 fingerboard C major blues scale : 3G1 box shape

GuitarPro6 fingerboard C major blues scale : 6E4E1 box shape

GuitarPro6 fingerboard C major blues scale : 6D4D2 box shape

GuitarPro6 fingerboard C major blues scale : 5C2 box shape at 12


CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major blues scale : Box shapes & TAB

  • 5C2
  • 5A3
  • 3G1
  • 6E4E1
  • 6D4D2
  • 5C2 at 12

CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 5C2 box shape

CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 5A3 box shape

CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 3G1 box shape

CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 6E4E1 box shape

CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 6D4D2 box shape

CAGED octaves C major blues scale : 5C2 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 - 5C2 - being repeated at the 12th fret).

The video shown to the right demonstrates the CAGED octaves chain-linked sequence for the C major blues scale box shapes.



The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-

GuitarPro7 TAB: C major blues scale box shapes


The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-

CAGED octaves C major blues scale box shapes

CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major blues scale
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf

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CAGED octaves C major-minor arpeggio box shapes pdf

GuitarPro7 TAB: CAGED octaves C major blues scale box shapes pdfGuitarPro7 TAB: CAGED octaves C major blues scale box shapes pdf


CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major blues scale : Overall fretboard box shapes

CAGED octaves C major blues scale box shapes : entire fretboard notes

CAGED octaves C major blues scale box shapes : entire fretboard intervals


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