Keith B Roscoe
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Keith B Roscoe is one of the unsung heroes of the bass guitar world; making by HAND some of the best instruments on the planet all the way down there in Greensboro, North Carolina. In the US one of the main Roscoe dealers are Alpha Music located in Virginia Beach, Virginia; whereas in England Roscoes are sold via Bass Direct in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Watch out for the in-depth report on the Roscoe Guitars factory visit by Zon Brookes at cagedoctaves.com |
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5-string bass C major scale box shapes
This issue demonstrates the CAGED octaves method for 5-string bass guitar but the all important orange letters have been omitted.
The CAGED octaves sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all of the C major scale notes plotted over the 5-string bass guitar's fretboard in the CAGED octaves style:-
As always a more long term solution to fretboard navigation is to see scales/arpeggios 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 are detailed below in the
CAGED octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the C major arpeggio in the
CAGED octaves style.
5-string bass C major scale box shapes
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- 5Z3
- 3Z1
- 4Z1
- 4Z2
- 5Z2
- 5Z3 at 12
- 5Z3
- 3Z1
- 4Z1
- 4Z2
- 5Z2
- 5Z3 at 12
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Check out a signature upside down southpaw Roscoe bass in action on iTunes with Jimmy Haslip of the Yellowjackets............ Foreign Correspondent....Zon Brookes |
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