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Learn Box 4 as a connector position that links Boxes 3 and 5 while resembling Box 1.  ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

Box 4 continues the pattern we’ve been developing: like Box 2, it works especially well as a Connector position rather than a primary home for improvisation.

Its biggest job is helping you move between Box 3 and Box 5, but this position also gives us two useful new perspectives: seeing the same box in two different locations on the neck, and recognizing clear minor and dominant arpeggio shapes inside the scale.

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Key Takeaways

  • Box 4 is primarily a Connector between Boxes 3 and 5.
  • In B♭, this is our first opportunity to visualize the same box in two different places on the neck.
  • The shape has some similarities to Box 1, but with an important shift in its layout.
  • Box 4 makes both minor 7 and dominant 7 arpeggio shapes especially easy to see.