Octave Method for Low B : 5-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Low B : 5-String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 5-string bass |
Paperbook Book :Octave Method for Five String Bass Fretboard navigation method for 5-string bass |
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Pino Palladino
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A natural minor scale box shapes for 5 string bass
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 A natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all of the A minor 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 A minor scale are detailed below in the
CAGED octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the A nautral minor scale in the
CAGED octaves style.
5-string bass A minor scale box shapes
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- 3Zm1
- 4Zm1
- 4Zm2
- 5Zm2
- 5Zm3
- 3Zm1 at 12
- 3Zm1
- 4Zm1
- 4Zm2
- 5Zm2
- 5Zm3
- 3Zm1 at 12
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One day he crossed some line |
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