Octave Method for Drop D : 6-String Guitar
Major Scales & Arpeggios
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eBook: Octave Method for Drop D: 6-string guitar Fretboard navigation method for Drop D : 6-string guitar based on a modification of the CAGED guitar method, using linked octave shapes rather than open position chord shapes for ease and simplicity of use. |
Book: Octave Method for Drop D: 6-String Guitar Fretboard navigation method for Drop D : 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. |
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6-string guitar (Drop D : DADGBE tuning)
C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps : General
In BLOGoZON No.492 the box shapes for the C major scale (ionian mode) were presented for
6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE) using the standard CAGED octaves guitar system for Drop D.
In this BLOGoZON we look again at the C major scale (ionian mode), but with 3nps shapes and
join them all together to form one long Drop D : CAGED octaves chain.
The diagram that follows shows all seven of the octave shapes used with the
three notes per string patterns for Drop D : 6-string guitar.
The conjoined Drop D : CAGED octaves sequence is shown for C natural in the diagram that follows.
GuitarPro6 fingerboard : C natural octaves
The diagram that follows shows all seven of the Drop D : CAGED octaves shapes for use with the
3nps box shapes for a 6-string guitar (Drop D - DADGBE).
The diagrams that follow show all of the C major scale (ionian mode) notes plotted over the
6-string guitar's (Drop D - DADGBE) fretboard in the CAGED octaves and GuitarPro6 styles:-
GuitarPro6 fingerboard : C major scale (ionian mode)
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 (ionian mode) are detailed below in the Drop D : CAGED octaves manner.
The tables and tabbed panels below detail all seven box shapes for the 3nps
C major scale (ionian mode) in the
Drop D : CAGED octaves style.
6-string guitar (Drop D : DADGBE tuning)
C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps : YouTube videos & pdf files
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6-string guitar (Drop D : DADGBE tuning)
C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps : Box shapes on YouTube
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 5A3G1
- 3G1
- 6E4E1
- 6E4D2
- 6D4D2
- 5C2 at 12
- 5C2
- 5A3
- 5A3G1
- 3G1
- 6E4E1
- 6E4D2
- 6D4D2
- 5C2 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 - 5C2 - being repeated at the 12th fret). The video shown to the right demonstrates the Drop D : CAGED octaves |
The complete TAB for the previously described exercise follows:-
The box shapes for the previous exercise follows:-
6-string guitar (Drop D : DADGBE tuning)
C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps
Box shapes pdf & GuitarPro6 TAB pdf
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6-string guitar (Drop D : DADGBE tuning)
C major scale (ionian mode) 3nps : Overall fretboard box shapes
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