Cycling The Major Scale Part 4 – Position Shifting

This week we’ll be looking at the 2 most flexible and common scales you’re ever likely to use in your bass lines: The Major and Minor Pentatonic scales. Pentatonic scales are simple 5 note scales so there are literally hundreds of possible variations. But the most common are the Major and Minor Pentatonic. In this…

In this Lesson, I’m going to teach you the secret to unlocking the bass fretboard. And guess what? It’s really obvious! Unlocking The Fretboard Many bass players want to learn how to play fluently all around the bass guitar fretboard. This usually mean working outside of the common one octave fretboard patterns we all learn…

This week we’re going to look at arpeggios, specifically four note inversions and I’m going to give you a little etude that should not only help with learning your arpeggios and chord tones a little better, but also help with moving around the neck a LOT. Arpeggio Etude

In this lesson, we look at a great tip for learning scales by adding the tonic arpeggio to the end of the line. This gives you a better understanding of how scales relate to the harmony Finding Arpeggios Within Scales In this exercise, we will take some different scales, play each one up and down, land on the tonic and…