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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D minor arpeggio and D dorian mode box shapes
In BLOGoZON No.31 the box shapes for the D DORIAN MODE were presented using the CAGED octaves methodology along with the undelying 4-note arpeggio for D MINOR SIXTH.
In this weeks BLOGoZON the box shapes for the D dorian mode are revisited but this time the undelying
3-note chord/arpeggio is presented i.e. D minor.
The CAGED octaves sequence is shown for D natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagrams that follow shows all of the D dorian mode notes plotted over the 6-string guitar's
fretboard in both the 
and CAGED octaves styles:-
A more long term solution to fretboard navigation is to see scales/modes/arpeggios as INTERVAL shapes rather than note names - as these are universal to all scales, modes, arpeggios and chords rather than specific to one particular root note - with this in mind the intervals for the D dorian mode
are detailed below in the CAGED octaves manner:-
All scales and modes have an underlying triad - 3 note chord - that defines their tonality.
In the case of the D dorian mode this is the D minor arpeggio - hence the notes for a D minor arpeggio
are presented in both the and CAGED octaves styles:-
Similarly the intervals forming a D minor arpeggio are shown next:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the D dorian mode and the
D minor arpeggio in the CAGED octaves style.
DCAGE octaves - D dorian mode box shapes
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- 5Am3
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- 4Dm2 at 12
- 4Dm2
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- 6Gm3Gm1
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DCAGE octaves - D minor arpeggio box shapes
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- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 4Dm2 at 12
- 4Dm2
- 5Cm2
- 5Am3
- 6Gm3Gm1
- 6Em4Em1
- 4Dm2 at 12
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