Octave Method for Drop D : 6-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios
eBook: Octave Method for Drop D: 6-string guitar Fretboard navigation method for Drop D : 6-string guitar based on a modification of the CAGED guitar method, using linked octave shapes rather than open position chord shapes for ease and simplicity of use. |
Book: 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. |
CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps
1 2 3 5 6 7 - C D E F G A B
General
In BLOGoZON No.844: Drop D the box shapes for C major scale (ionian mode)(1 2 3 5 6 7 - C D E F G A B)
and join them all together for 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE) to form one long CAGED octaves chain.

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

The diagram that follows shows all seven of the Drop D : CAGED octaves shapes for use with the
3nps box shapes for a 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE).

GuitarPro6 fingerboard : C natural octaves


The image that follows shows all five of the CAGED octaves shapes for use with the
box shapes for a 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE).
The diagrams that follow show all of the C major scale (ionian mode) (1 2 3 5 6 7 - C D E F G A B)
notes plotted over the 6-string guitar's (Drop D - DADGBE) fretboard in the
CAGED octaves and GuitarPro6 styles.

GuitarPro6 fingerboard : C major scale (ionian mode)

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) (1 2 3 5 6 7 - C D E F G A B)
are detailed below in the CAGED octaves manner.

The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the
C major scale (ionian mode) (1 2 3 5 6 7 - C D E F G A B) in the
CAGED octaves style.
CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps
1 2 3 5 6 7 - C D E F G A B
YouTube videos & pdf files
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CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps
1 2 3 5 6 7 - C D E F G A B
Box shapes on YouTube
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 5A3G1
- 3G1
- 6E4E1
- 6E4D2
- 6D4D2
- 5C2 at 12








CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE) |
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 5A3G1
- 3G1
- 6E4E1
- 6E4D2
- 6D4D2
- 5C2 at 12








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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 below demonstrates the CAGED octaves chain-linked sequence for the |
CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE) |
The complete TAB for the previously described exercise follows:-

CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps
1 2 3 5 6 7 - C D E F G A B
Box shapes
The box shapes for the previous exercise follows:-

CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps
1 2 3 5 6 7 - C D E F G A B
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro8 TAB pdf
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CAGED octaves : 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE)
C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps
1 2 3 5 6 7 - C D E F G A B
Overall fretboard box shapes
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