Learning scales tends to be one of the least popular parts of learning a musical instrument. Regardless, they are essential building blocks for harmony/music theory and whatever your aspirations as a bass player, you’ll need to have some familiarity with them. This course covers the basic major and minor scales.
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This course is 13 MINUTES long and contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:
This lesson will discuss the importance of scales and why it’s important for bass players to learn them effectively. Scales are important musical building blocks!
This lesson contains a detailed examination of the major scale. It covers its construction and illustrates a simple way of playing it on the bass.
This lesson will introduce you to the Circle of Fifths, which is an illustration of all twelve keys. Learning about the circle provides a logical order in which to learn new keys.
This lesson covers the minor scale in detail. As well the construction of this scale, the concept of related keys is discussed here.