Octave Method for Low B : 7-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios


Octave Method for 7-String Guitar (Low B)

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Octave Method for Seven String Guitar


Fretboard navigation method for 7-string guitar
(Low B) based on an instrument 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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Octave Method for Low B : 7-String Guitar


Fretboard navigation method for 7-string guitar
(Low B) 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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BAGED octaves (BEADGBE - standard 7 string guitar tuning)
C major scale (3 notes per string) : General

In BLOGoZON No.250 the box shapes for the C major scale were presented using the BAGED octaves methodology - this is the CAGED octaves guitar system adapted and improved for 7-string guitar.

In this BLOGoZON we look at the C major scale, again, but with 3nps shapes and join them all together to form one long BAGED octaves chain.

The diagram that follows shows all seven of the BAGED octaves shapes for use with the three notes per string patterns for a 7-string guitar tuned to BEADGBE :-

BAGED octaves 3nps logo

The conjoined BAGED octaves sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-

BAGED octaves C natural

GuitarPro6 C natural octaves

The diagrams that follow show all of the C major scale notes plotted over the 7-string guitar's BEADGBE fretboard in the BAGED octaves and GuitarPro6 styles:-

BAGED octaves C major scale entire fretboard notes

GuitarPro6 C amjor scale

As always a more long term solution to fretboard navigation is to see scales 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 C major scale are detailed below in the BAGED octaves manner:-

BAGED octaves C major scale entire fretboard intervals

The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the C major scale 3nps in the BAGED octaves style for BEADGBE: standard 7-string tuning.


BAGED octaves (BEADGBE - standard 7 string guitar tuning)
C major scale (3 notes per string) box shapes : pdf

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BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 7B5B2 box shape pdf

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 7B5A3 box shape pdf

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 5A3G1 box shape pdf

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 6G3G1 box shape pdf

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 6E4E1 box shape pdf

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 6E4D2 box shape pdf

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 7D4D2 box shape pdf

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 7B5B2 box shape at 12 pdf


BAGED octaves (BEADGBE - standard 7 string guitar tuning)
C major scale (3 notes per string) box shapes : YouTube videos

  • 7B5B2
  • 7B5A3
  • 5A3G1
  • 6G3G1
  • 6E4E1
  • 6E4D2
  • 7D4D2
  • 7B5B2 at 12

GuitarPro6 C major scale 3nps : 7B5B2 box shape

GuitarPro6 C major scale 3nps : 7B5A3 box shape

GuitarPro6 C major scale 3nps : 5A3G1 box shape

GuitarPro6 C major scale 3nps : 6G3G1 box shape

GuitarPro6 C major scale 3nps : 6E4E1 box shape

GuitarPro6 C major scale 3nps : 6E4D2 box shape

GuitarPro6 C major scale 3nps : 7D4D2 box shape

GuitarPro6 C major scale 3nps : 7B5B2 box shape at 12


  • 7B5B2
  • 7B5A3
  • 5A3G1
  • 6G3G1
  • 6E4E1
  • 6E4D2
  • 7D4D2
  • 7B5B2 at 12

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 7B5B2 box shape

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 7B5A3 box shape

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 5A3G1 box shape

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 6G3G1 box shape

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 6E4E1 box shape

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 6E4D2 box shape

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 7D4D2 box shape

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps : 7B5B2 box shape at 12



Once the individual box shapes have been assimilated all seven shapes should be linked together and played in one continuous exercise (with the first shape - 7B5B2 - being repeated at the 12th fret).

The video shown to the right demonstrates the BAGED octaves chain-linked sequence for the C major scale 3nps box shapes.


The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-

GuitarPro7 C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps box shapes TAB


The box shapes for the previous exercise follows:-

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps box shapes

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BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps box shapes pdf

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps box shapes TAB pdfBAGED octaves C major scale 3nps box shapes TAB pdf

BAGED octaves (BEADGBE - standard 7 string guitar tuning)
C major scale (3 notes per string) box shapes :
Overall fretboard box shapes

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps box shapes : fretboard notes

BAGED octaves C major scale 3nps box shapes : fretboard intervals


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