Octave Method for Low E : 4-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Four String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 4-string bass 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. |
Paperbook Book :CAGED4BASS : Octave Method for 4-String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 4-string bass 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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Donald "Duck" Dunn
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Donald "Duck" Dunn is best known as the bassist for STAX Records' house band Booker T and the MGs.
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BassBooks.com and Amazon.com both sell copies of the Tim Tindall transcription book called What Duck Dunn. Lakland currently produce a Duck Dunn Signature Skyline Model shown in the photograph below. |
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The table that follows lists previous BLOGoZON issues that relate to the CAGED4BASS and AGEDC4BASS memorisation method:-
BLOGoZON ISSUE No. |
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CAGED4BASS - C major scale box shapes |
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CAGED4BASS - C major arpeggio box shapes |
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AGEDC4BASS - A natural minor scale box shapes |
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AGEDC4BASS - A minor arpeggio box shapes |
This issue demonstrates the perfect scale to create bass-lines over major chords regardless of the musical context - PENTATONIC MAJOR
The easiest example of the pentatonic major scale is rooted on C natural, hence the C natural version of the CAGED4BASS sequence is shown in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all of the C pentatonic major scale notes plotted over the entire fretboard for the 4-string bass guitar in the CAGED4BASS style:-
Once again 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 pentatonic major are detailed below in the CAGED4BASS manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below detail all five box shapes for an C pentatonic major in the CAGED4BASS style.
CAGED4BASS - C pentatonic major scale box shapes
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- 3C*
- 3A1
- 4G1
- 4E2
- 2D*
- 3C* at 12
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Time is Tight...Zon Brookes |
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