The first thing you need to know is the various notes on your bass guitar, when you are very familiar with all the notes and their positions then it's time to move start learning your scales.
Learning bass Scales is so important because without your scales you will always play an empty song and It will also help you come up with bass lines and improvise. for a few other different reasons learning bass scales helps you.
- They build strength and independence in your fingers.
- Helps to train you ears to recognize some common note combinations.
- Can be used as note choices in bass line construction, improvisation and writing of music.
The following five basic scale shapes should be memorized and played daily. They should be played in all positions, but a good place to start is around the 5th fret. Try to use the scales in your playing as soon as possible, writing or improvising bass lines out of them.
The first scale we are going to practice is your major bass scale because it is one of the most used scale when scoring a song and besides it's a good warm up and technique builder, the major scale will be the starting point for all theory. Play the scale going up and down keeping as steady of a beat as possible.
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