How To Play Bass Scales
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How To Play Bass Scales
Learn to play scales for pop, rock and funk. In this video Derek Baxter, bass guitar teacher at the London Music school and pro musician, show you how to play the major, major pentatonic, minor pentatonic and blues scales on bass guitar.
Top Tips
- There are lots of different ways to play scales, but practice starting each scale with your first finger and with your second finger.
- The shapes of the scales are the same, it just depends which note you start with. So to play a D major , start on a D, to play a G major, start on a G.
- Pentatonic scales are 5 note scales. They leave out the dissonant notes of the major and minor scales.