Bass Guitar Lessons – Scales – Main Page

Section Three – Scales

Bass Guitar Lessons – Scales –>This section covers the most common scales used when playing bass. Learning scales increases your ability to play notes and patterns over the right chords at the right time. Understanding scales will allow your mastery of bass to occur much faster. We provide an overview of the scales, how they are played on bass, and how they are applied to construct bass lines. The lessons build on each other. So start with the first lesson and progress through each in order:

1. The Major Scale
   • Major Scales – Fretboard Diagrams
   • Related Lesson –> Learning the Major Scale by Brent-Anthony Johnson
2. The Major Triad
3. The Major 7^th
4. The Dominant 7th
5. The Major Pentatonic
   • Major Pentatonic Fretboard Diagrams
   • The Major Pentatonic by David Keif
   • The Major Pentatonic by J.D. DeServio
   • Pentatonic Playground Bass Guitar Course
6. Two Octave Major Scales
7. The Minor Scale
   • Minor Scales – Fretboard Diagrams
8. The Minor Triad
9. The Minor 7^th
10. The Minor Pentatonic
    • Minor Pentatonic Fretboard Diagrams
11. The Minor Blues Scale
    • Minor Pentatonic Blues Scale

Bass Guitar Tips, Tricks & Exercises

• Warmup Exercises for Bass Guitar
• Bass Guitar Lesson – Funk Bass For Beginners
• Bass Guitar Rock Grooves for Beginners
• Bass Guitar Lesson – Chicago Blues
• Bass Guitar Lesson – 3 Finger Plucking Technique
• How to Play Slap Bass Guitar
• Bass Guitar Tip : Fakin’ It
• Bass Guitar Tip: Shuffle Funk
• Bass Guitar Tip – The Pivot
• Chromatic Practice Exercises
• Bass Guitar Tip: How the Bass Works
• Bass Guitar Tip – How to Play Double Stops
• Beginner Bass Lesson – How to Play Harmonics
• Tuning Your Bass With Harmonics
• Bass Guitar Chromatic Practice Exercises
• Bass Guitar Lesson – Practice Routines

Supplementary Materials:

• Songs for Beginner Bass Players
• Bass Scales Wall Charts
• Essential Bass Theory Wall Chart
• Bass Instruction Books & Downloads

• Next Section –> Intermediate & Advanced Lessons
• <– Previous Section – Common Bass Patterns
• Lessons – Main Page

Bass Guitar Lessons – Scales