Octave Method for Low B : 5-String Bass
Major Scales & Arpeggios
|
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 |
|
Lee Sklar
|
Lee Sklar is the 5-string bass sessioneer who has joined forces with Canadian bass manufacturer Dingwall to produce the Lee Sklar Signature 5-string bass. |
|
Buy your own Dingwall bass from Bass Direct in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. |
|
A minor arpeggio 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 arpeggio 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 arpeggio are detailed below in the CAGED octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the A minor arpeggio in the CAGED octaves style.
5-string bass A minor arpeggio box shapes
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|||||
|
|
|||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
- 3Zm1
- 4Zm1
- 4Zm2
- 5Zm2
- 5Zm3
- 3Zm1 at 12
- 3Zm1
- 4Zm1
- 4Zm2
- 5Zm2
- 5Zm3
- 3Zm1 at 12
|
Love isn't always on time....Zon Brookes |
|
