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Stephen Carpenter uses both 7 and 8-string guitars for Californian Metal band the Deftones. |
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ESP produce both the STEF-B8 and SC-608B Stephen Carpenter signature series 8-strings . |
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A minor arpeggio box shapes for 8 string guitar
The disguised CAGED octaves method for the A minor arpeggio on 8-string guitar now follows:-
The 8-string guitar 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 8-string guitar's
fretboard in both the 
and CAGED 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 A minor arpeggio are detailed below for the
8-string guitar in the CAGED octaves manner:-
The table and tabbed panel below details all five box shapes for the A natural minor scale for the 8-string guitar in the CAGED octaves style.
8-string guitar A minor arpeggio box shapes
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B |
G |
D |
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- 8Zm5Zm3
- 8Zm6Zm3Zm1
- 6Zm4Zm1
- 7Zm4Zm2
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- 7Zm4Zm2
- 7Zm5Zm2
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Hexagram ..............Zon Brookes |
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