Basic Scales for bass 03: The Blues Scale

Here, I give a fingering guide and a little guidance on playing the Blues scale in C and G. For more info and some text to accompany this lesson, check out davemarks.com and go to the 'lessons' menu.

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[MnFork]

Oi, many thanks for these videos! Looking forward to the theory type videos - I feel knowledge on that topic will aid in understanding. Completely changing the subject: I have to say I don't know whether to be happy or mad that you got me hooked on Beardyman...

[davemarks]

He is BAAAAD! :-)

[joefreakhouse1]

ive got a question. when im playing the blues scale (for example in C) then it would go up to the 10th fret on the D string like you showed.does it work if i was to continue the scale and hit the 8th and 10th fret on the G string as well to finish the scale? (so it would be a 9 note scale instead of 7.)

[davemarks]

Yes - that is positional playing (playing all of the notes from a scale that are under your hand) that will be in my second set of scale videos :-)

[davemarks]

That's just the good old fashioned TD 650. I got it off Marcus Miller after his gig in London a few years back. It's an incredible amp. :-)

[ryanragasa]

2 dislikes! silly you guys!

[funkster22657]

talking to fast

[andrewxmets]

nice video, very nice musicman, please do some more advanced stuff soon, on applying modes, and some techniques if you get a chance!

[SillyHatVideos]

Very good videos, you make it much easier to learn scales then others i've tried