Two-Octave Scales & Modes with A Major on Bass

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CASEY CORMIER: Okay, now we're going to look at two-octave major scales starting on the A string and we will start with, of course, A. Now, something I have known about this is we are going to end up going past the 12th fret of the fretboard now, which we have not previously done. But remember, when you get up there, basically pretend that the 12th fret is your open space, your open strings. It is the same thing, so any intervals from there and 2 frets away from open G, from 12th fret of the G, that the 14th fret is another A, which is an octave higher than the A that you knew in the 2nd fret. All right, so let us look at A major. Remember, one octave, it is the same fingering as E major was. A, B, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, G sharp, A. Unfortunately, unlike the E major, we don't have an extra string here if we are playing a 4-string bass, and that's a lot of movement to get up to here. So let us try to minimize that. We are going to want to make do, instead of coming to this octave here of the A string, we are going to go to the 7th fret octave on the A string. So that is from here, A, B, C sharp, D, E, and now that we are not going to be playing the G sharp here, we can use our first finger to play B. A, B, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, and now our first finger moves up to play the G sharp and look, we're using our second finger again for the octave. So there really are 3 big moves now that we are playing octaves up, two-octave major scales on the A string. One jump. So A, B, C sharp, D, E, F, sharp, G sharp, A. A, B, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, we move here for the F sharp, G sharp, and A. try playing back down, getting comfortable with playing up to the A, two octaves.

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