Octave Method for Drop E : 8-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook :Octave Method for Drop E Eight String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for Drop E : |
Paperbook Book :Octave Method for Drop E : 8-String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for Drop E : |
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BAGED octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
C major blues scale : General
This weeks BLOGoZON looks at the C major blues scale for 8-string guitar in Drop E tuning.
Below the BAGED octaves for Drop E sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows:-
The diagram that follows shows all five of the BAGED octaves shapes for use with the
box shapes for a 8-string guitar tuned to EBEADGBE :-
The diagrams that follow show all of the C major blues scale notes plotted over the 8-string guitar's EBEADGBE fretboard in the BAGED octaves Drop E : 8-string guitar and GuitarPro7 styles:-
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 blues scale are detailed below in the
BAGED octaves manner:-
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all five box shapes for the C major blues scale in the
BAGED octaves style for Drop E tuning.
BAGED octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
C major blues scale box shapes
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BAGED octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
C major blues scale box shapes
- 7B5B2
- 5A3
- 8G6G3G1
- 8E6E4E1
- 7D4D2
- 7B5B2 at 12
BAGED octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
C major blues scale box shapes
- 7B5B2
- 5A3
- 8G6G3G1
- 8E6E4E1
- 7D4D2
- 7B5B2 at 12
Once the individual box shapes have been assimilated all five shapes should be linked together and played in one continuous exercise (with the first shape - 7B5B2 - being repeated at the 12th fret). |
The complete TAB for the previous exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follow:-
BAGED octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
C major blues scale
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf
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BAGED octaves (Drop E : 8-string guitar)
C major blues scale : Overall fretboard box shapes
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