Octave Method for 6-String Guitar : Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Six String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for 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. |
Paperbook Book :Octave Method for 6-String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for 6-string guitar based on an instrument specific modification of the CAGED guitar method, using octave shapes rather than open position chord shapes for ease and simplicity of use. |
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Anders Nystrom
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Anders Nystrom is the founding member and lead guitarist for Swedish metal band Katatonia. |
Mayones produce both a Regius 6 Gothic Blakkheim and a Setius Gothic Blakkheim his amplification needs are taken care of by Laboga. |
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E natural minor 3 notes per string box shapes
The table that follows lists previous BLOGoZON issues where the MAJOR SCALE 3 NOTES PER STRING have been detailed in various keys:-
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BLOGoZON ISSUE No. |
ACRONYM |
SCALE NAME |
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CAGED |
C minor |
AGEDC |
A minor |
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GEDCA |
G minor |
BLOGoZON No.52 |
EDCAG |
E minor |
DCAGE |
D minor |
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This issue demonstrates the perfect mode to improvise guitar solos over MINOR chords to produce a normal minor sound - the NATURAL MINOR SCALE.
The SCALE chords in the metal guitarist's favourite key - E minor - are listed in the next table:-
CHORD SYMBOL |
CHORD NAME |
FORMULA |
| Em | minor | 1 b3 5 |
| Em7 | minor seventh | 1 b3 5 b7 |
| Em9 | minor seventh | 1 b3 5 b7 9 |
| Em11 | minor eleventh | 1 b3 5 b7 9 11 |
| Em13 | minor thirteenth | 1 b3 5 b7 9 11 13 |
The reason this scale works over these chords is that they are both essentially derived from the same thing i.e the Em13 chord is the NATURAL MINOR SCALE stacked in thirds.
The EDCAG octaves sequence is shown for E natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all of the E natural minor scale notes plotted over the 6-string guitar's
fretboard in both the 
and EDCAG octaves styles:-
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 E natural minor scale are detailed below in the EDCAG octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the E natural minor in the EDCAG octaves style.
EDCAG octaves - E natural minor 3 notes per string box shapes
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- 6Em4Dm2
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 5Am3Gm1
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 6Em4Dm2 at 12
- 6Em4Dm2
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 5Am3Gm1
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 6Em4Dm2 at 12
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For my Demons....Zon Brookes |
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