In my long experience as a teacher, I have found that studying 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. In this video course we’re going to take a look at the basic major and minor scales.
Don't forget to hit the Download Resources button above to receive the PDF worksheet and backing tracks that accompany these lessons! This course contains the following videos, each of which can be selected from the video player above:
In this video we’ll be examining the importance of scales and why it’s important for bass players to learn them.
In this video we’ll be looking at the major scale in detail. We’ll cover its construction and look at a simple way to play it on the bass.
In this video I’ll be talking about the Circle of Fifths, which is an illustration of all twelve keys. Learning about the circle gives us a logical order in which to learn new keys.
In this video we’ll be looking at the minor scale in detail. We’ll look at its construction and we’ll discuss the concept of related keys.