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


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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


BAGED octaves : 8-string guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 1313131 sweeps : General

In BLOGoZON No.686 the standard box shapes for the C pentatonic major scale
were presented using the BAGED octaves methodology for 8-string guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE).

BAGED octaves logo : 8-String Guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE)

In this BLOGoZON we look at the C pentatonic major scale, again, but with
1313131 sweep patterns and join them all together to form one long BAGED octaves chain.

Below the C natural octave sequence is shown for 8-string guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE).

BAGED octaves (8-string guitar : Drop E - EBEADGBE): C natural octaves fretboard

GuitarPro6 fingerboard : C natural octaves

GuitarPro6 C natural octaves

The diagram that follows shows all five of the BAGED octaves shapes for use with the
box shapes for 8-string guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE).

8-string Drop E octave shapes

The diagram that follows shows all five of the BAGED octaves shapes for use with the
box shapes for 8-string guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE).

8-String Guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE) : C natural octaves

The diagram that follows shows all five of the BAGED octaves shapes for use with the
1313131 sweep patterns for a 8-string guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE).

C natural octaves pseudo 3nps (8-string guitar : Drop E - EBEADGBE)

The diagrams that follow show all of the C pentatonic major scale notes plotted over the
8-string guitar's (Drop E - EBEADGBE) fretboard in the BAGED octaves and GuitarPro6 styles.

BAGED octaves (8-string guitar : Drop E - EBEADGBE) : C pentatonic major scale fretboard notes

GuitarPro6 C pentatonic major 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 pentatonic major scale are detailed below in the BAGED octaves manner.

BAGED octaves (8-string guitar : Drop E - EBEADGBE) : C pentatonic major scale fretboard intervals

The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the 1313131 sweep patterns
of the C pentatonic major scale in the BAGED octaves style.


BAGED octaves : 8-string guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 1313131 sweeps
YouTube videos & pdf files

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BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 7B5B2:5A3 box shape (1313131 sweep) pdf
BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 5A3:8G6G3G1 box shape (1313131 sweep) pdf
BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 8G6G3G1:8E6E4E1 box shape (1313131 sweep) pdf
BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 8E6E4E1:7D4D2 box shape (1313131 sweep) pdf
BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 7D4D2:7B5B2 box shape (1313131 sweep) pdf
BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 7B5B2:5A3 box shape at 12 (1313131 sweep) pdf

BAGED octaves : 8-string guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 1313131 sweeps : YouTube videos

  • 7B5B2
    5A3

  • 5A3
    8G6G3G1

  • 8G6G3G1
    8E6E4E1

  • 8E6E4E1
    7D4D2

  • 7D4D2
    7B5B2

  • 7B5B2
    5A3 at 12

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 7B5B2:5A3 box shape (1313131 sweep)

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 5A3:8G6G3G1 box shape (1313131 sweep)

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 8G6G3G1:8E6E4E1 box shape (1313131 sweep)

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 8E6E4E1:7D4D2 box shape (1313131 sweep)

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 7D4D2:7B5B2 box shape (1313131 sweep)

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 7B5B2:5A3 box shape at 12 (1313131 sweep)


BAGED octaves : 8-string guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 1313131 sweeps : Box shapes

  • 7B5B2
    5A3

  • 5A3
    8G6G3G1

  • 8G6G3G1
    8E6E4E1

  • 8E6E4E1
    7D4D2

  • 7D4D2
    7B5B2

  • 7B5B2
    5A3 at 12

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 7B5B2:5A3 box shape (1313131 sweep)

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 5A3:8G6G3G1 box shape (1313131 sweep)

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 8G6G3G1:8E6E4E1 box shape (1313131 sweep)

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 8E6E4E1:7D4D2 box shape (1313131 sweep)

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 7D4D2:7B5B2 box shape (1313131 sweep)

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale - 7B5B2:5A3 box shape at 12 (1313131 sweep)


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 - 7B5B2:8A5A3 - being repeated at the 12th fret).

The complete TAB for the previously described exercise follows:-

GuitarPro7 TAB:  C pentatonic major scale box shapes (1313131 sweep patterns)


The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale box shapes (1313131 sweep patterns)

BAGED octaves : 8-string guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 1313131 sweeps
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf

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BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale box shapes (1313131 sweep) pdf

GuitarPro7 TAB: C pentatonic major scale box shapes (1313131 sweep patterns) pdfGuitarPro7 TAB: C pentatonic major scale box shapes (1313131 sweep patterns) pdf


BAGED octaves : 8-string guitar (Drop E - EBEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 1313131 sweeps
Overall fretboard box shapes

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale box shapes (1313131 sweep patterns) : entire fretboard notes

BAGED octaves C pentatonic major scale box shapes (1313131 sweep patterns) : entire fretboard intervals


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