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Part of the video series: How to Play Advanced Bass Guitar in the Key of C

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Summary: Learn the visual scale in C with expert tips and advice on bass guitar lesson in this free video clip on music.

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Advanced Bass Guitar: Visual Scale

Now we're going to take a visual look at our C major scale. We start right here on the second string, third fret, right at the very first dot. We go to the fifth fret, then up a string, second, third, fifth, and then up a string, second, fourth, fifth. So, if you look at the entire pattern, we're starting here on our seventh degree. We have two, three, and our root's here on the third, three, five, two, three, five, two, four, five. And if we keep going down we got three, two, five, three, one. And that's our C major scale, and we number it from one to seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. That gives you all your intervals, so a second is here, a third is here, fourth, or if you want to go one, three, five, that's your basic triad. So you can take all this information and utilize it all over the fretboard and move this one scale pattern around the whole fretboard. And again if you start on the two, you get a minor scale, and you have to add the seventh fret here at the top, right, two, three, five, seven. Or two, four, five, seven. And if you start on the five, which is right here on the low string, you get your seventh scale. Well, that's very easy to get. It's three, five, two, three, five, two, three, five. So that's your C major scale and the major pattern, and you really want to get that under your fingers 'cause we're going to go through and really tear it apart and utilize it, all over the bass.

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