Octave Method for Low B : 7-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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BAGED octaves : 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 3131313 sweeps : General
In BLOGoZON No.829:B1 the pseudo 3nps box shapes for the C pentatonic major scale
were presented using the BAGED octaves methodology for 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE).
Below the BAGED octaves sequence is shown for C natural over the entire fretboard.
In this BLOGoZON we look at the C pentatonic major scale, again, but as 3131313 sweep patterns.
The diagram that follows shows all five of the double octave shapes for use with the
3131313 sweep patterns for a 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE).
GuitarPro6 fingerboard : C natural octaves

The diagram that follows shows all five of the BAGED octaves shapes for use with the
box shapes for a 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE).
The diagrams that follow show all of the C pentatonic major scale notes plotted over
the 7-string guitar's fretboard in the BAGED octaves and GuitarPro6 styles:-
GuitarPro6 fingerboard : 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.
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the
C pentatonic major scale for 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE).
BAGED octaves : 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 3131313 sweeps
YouTube videos & pdf files
BAGED octaves : 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 3131313 sweeps : YouTube videos
- 7B5B2:5A3
- 5A3:6G3G1
- 6G3G1:6E4E1
- 6E4E1:7D4D2
- 7D4D2:7B5B2
- 7B5B2:5A3 at 12
BAGED octaves : 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE)
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- 7B5B2:5A3
- 5A3:6G3G1
- 6G3G1:6E4E1
- 6E4E1:7D4D2
- 7D4D2:7B5B2
- 7B5B2:5A3 at 12
BAGED octaves : 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 3131313 sweeps : GuitarPro8 TAB
The GuitarPro8 TAB shown below demonstrates the BAGED octaves chain-linked sequence for the
C pentatonic major scale box shapes (3131313 sweep patterns)
for 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE).
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 - 7B5B2:5A3 - being repeated at the 12th fret).
BAGED octaves : 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 3131313 sweeps
C pentatonic major scale box shapes
The box shapes for the previous exercise follow.
BAGED octaves : 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 3131313 sweeps
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf
BAGED octaves : 7-string guitar (B1 standard - BEADGBE)
C pentatonic major scale - 3131313 sweeps
Overall fretboard box shapes
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