ADVANCED BASS GUITAR SCALES

Name: ADVANCED BASS GUITAR SCALES
Rating: 4.2 (4 reviews)

Bass Guitar Scale Positions, Techniques and Applications

Created byMark Sternal

Last updated 7/2024

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What you'll learn

"For beginner to expert... every position on the guitar and all the ways to use them to create music." --Music Connection Magazine
"Total is the key word... every position on the fingerboard, in every key, and different ways to use them. -Bass Player Magazine
Whether you play rock, metal, blues, jazz, country or any other style of music, it s pretty much guaranteed that there s a scale for you... -Doug Coy, Observer
The key that will open the door to Total Bass Guitar Mastery. A complete course for beginner through dedicated professional.

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 3h 11m total length

Introduction to the Natural Scale2:56
Explore the natural scale, with seven notes and no accidentals, and learn how root notes define major or minor keys for writing melodies, chords, and harmonies.
Scale Positions19:16
Learn scale positions on bass through C major and A minor patterns, with step-by-step fingering, thumb placement, alternate picking, and tempo-based practice.
Scale Positions for 5 and 6-String Bass Guitar2:11
Explore scale positions for five- and six-string bass guitars in standard tuning, using notes B, E, A, D, G (and C on six strings), with low strings aligned across both.
Speed and Memorization2:10
Memorize bass scale positions by ascending up the neck and descending, practicing each position faster as you go from 100 to 250 bpm.
Intro to Bass Lines and Soloing5:00
Learn to craft basslines and solos with scale notes, scale-based chords, and question-and-answer phrasing, while exploring key changes and emotional expression.
Scale Notes As Chords3:03
Use each scale note as a chord to write chordal progressions and basslines, using major and minor chords from the key of C, with B diminished and slap, pop techniques.
Writing Music with Bass Scale Applications42:52
Explore bass scale applications to craft engaging basslines, using two-, three-, and four-note patterns with varied rhythms and techniques like palm muting, vibrato, passing tones, hammer-ons, and slides.
Scale Techniques and Applications54:14
Explore advanced bass guitar scale techniques and applications, including hammer-ons, pull-offs, slides, bends, harmonics, tapping, and damping, and apply them across scale positions and rhythms while staying in key.
Exotic Scales59:55
Explore Aeolian, Locrian, Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, and Mixolydian modes and how pentatonic and melodic minor concepts apply across keys on bass.

Requirements

Desire to learn bass guitar.

Description

The key that will open the door to Total Bass Guitar Mastery. A complete course for beginner through dedicated professional. Using easy-to-remember shapes found in every musical key, you will learn to expertly play scales, bass lines and fills on the entire fretboard... plus all of the tricks and techniques used by the worlds greatest bass players: hammer ons, pull offs, picking patterns, vibrato, string bending, slides, two hand tapping, and much more.

Advanced Features: Increment patterns, string skipping, double note patterns (harmony), harmonics, scale notes as chords and song writing tips.

To wrap up this amazing instructional DVD, Marko Coconut teaches you all of the modes, key changes, plus 50 exotic and cultural scales that will truly enhance your playing.

Total is the key word... every position on the fingerboard, in every key, and different ways to use them. -Bass Player Magazine

"For beginner to expert... every position on the guitar and all the ways to use them to create music." --Music Connection Magazine
Whether you play rock, metal, blues, jazz, country or any other style of music, it s pretty much guaranteed that there s a scale for you... -Doug Coy, Observer Editor, New York

E-mail support from the author is happily provided for all students!

Who this course is for:

Beginner through advanced bass guitarists.