Advanced Bass Guitar: Scale Tab

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So now we're going to take a look at the scale as its written in tab, and we wrote it out here. You notice we have four lines here, each represents a string on the bass, from our high string to our low string. And we started on second string right, three, five, two, three, five, two, four, five. So that was our pattern. So you want to make sure you write all this information at home, and you want to start on the bottom string. One, three, five, two, three, five, two, three, five, two, four, five. And write that whole pattern down. And again, we're start right here on the third fret, second string, and we're going to go over the actual letters of the scale in the next segment, which is important, when we go and analyze a tune. But you want to make sure you mark, this is one, and go down one through seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. You can put a square around it. The third fret and then the top fret. You want to make sure you have this down. And I also circled the fifth as kind of medium point for you to find, right, so we go one, two, three, four, five, those are our intervals. Six, seven, one. So you want to go through and write this down. Again, this is just simple tab, and we're going to take this pattern that comes out of it, and move it all over the fretboard. So once you have it under your fingers, really memorize what it looks like 'cause we're going to use this same pattern, this skip a fret up a fret, up a fret, skip a fret, up a fret, skip a fret, up a fret, and move it all over the bass. A good exercise is maybe to just start on another fret and get it. Good way to memorize it. And once you have that you can start running through your second and fifth degrees and you get your minor scale off the second and you get your fifth scale off the fifth. So that's your seventh scale, which comes off of the fifth note, ironically. So go through and get these patterns under your fingers, and we're going to go through and I'm going to show you how to utilize them in the next couple of segments.

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