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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 about the guitar scale alphabet in the key of C with expert tips and advice on bass guitar lesson in this free video clip on music.

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Advanced Bass Guitar: Alphabet

Now we're going to do an introduction into alphabetical names and we're going to start on C. Right? We are learning our C major scale. And C is right here on the third fret. And you want to go in the tab that you've written down at home and write down the actual letters to it. Go C, D, E (on the second fret - top, second string), F (third fret), G (fifth fret). Then up a string, A (second fret), B (fourth fret) C. So, we're just going through the alphabet -- C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C. And we go from A to G through the alphabet, but we are starting on C. And if you start on C and go backwards you've got C, D, A, G, F for your low two strings. So, you want to go through and make sure you have this all notated. So, then when we get an F chord we can go C, D, E, F. Okay, so that's the fourth note of the scale and it's found on the third fret. Or, say you have an E flat chord, even though that's out of the scale, you can go C, D, E. And if it's flat you move it down a fret, so it would be on the first fret on the top string here. So, by utilizing these chord names we can find our way around the base and start playing these chords. And then once we have the root of the chord we can just apply our scale to it. So, if we have a three and it's a major chord we can just play our major scale pattern we just learned. And we can go through and walk through all of these different chords utilizing the same major scale pattern.

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