When you’re comfortable with those intervals, do the same thing for the intervals in the octave below the root note. To assist you with finding those shapes initially, I recommend thinking of the root as the “8th” (octave).

Again, let’s look at that C major scale. Relative to the high C (5th fret, G string), the B (at the 4th fret of the G string) is the “7th, in the octave below the root”, or what I abbreviate as simply the “7th, below”.

For the theory buffs among us, I’d like to clarify that we’re not referring to an inversion of intervals (reversing of the relative position of the two notes...where the interval between B and C is a minor 2nd). We’re simply expanding our knowledge of interval shapes to extend into the octave below our root note, to allow the interval concepts to be applied to different registers of the instrument.

Anyway, memorize that shape (a half step, with the higher note being the root) as the “7th, below”.

EXERCISE 1

Proceed to memorize the remaining interval shapes for each of the other major scale degrees in the octave below.

Video Exercise 1

 

EXERCISE 2

As we did last time, memorize the following intervallic shapes and transpose to all keys.