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How to Play Bass Guitar Scales : Playing a Major Scale on Bass Guitar

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Uploaded by on Apr 10, 2008

Here are some tips on how to play a major scale in any key on the bass guitar that will help you be a better bass player in this free video clip.

Expert: Michael Torres
Bio: Michael Torres has a BA with Berklee College of Music w/ scholarships. Has being playing bass professionally for 8 years and won several awards. He is a member of the Roads To You Orchestra.
Filmmaker: Nili Nathan

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  • why teach beginner bass on a 5 string?

  • @zelcibot It's unfortunate that the majority of people don't respect the bass players. the bass is the backbone of much music., You don't notice it when it's there most of the time, but you sure as hell would notice if it were gone. Listen to actual good music and the bass is much more prominant and hard to miss. Listen to progressive rock, listen to funk. The bass will often times make your asshole much too loose.

    "Yours is no disgrace" by Yes is a wonderful example.

    Fag

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  • @gibsonbear I'd sack him. Not a good teacher at all.

  • why don't you idiots who profess to teach do so on a 4 string which is what the majority of beginners start with!

  • Hence the fret bars create squares and parallel's not used correctly,but memory does and people ignore it,for the teacher didn't mention it...Slavery

  • Ah basically a square within squares...Hence pillars and rows...Use your own methd it will sound better.Difference between u and others is yours.

  • whats with the weird emphasis on the "little" in mary had a little lamb?

  • Tone Tone Semi-tone Tone Tone Tone Semi-tone

    The basis of any scale

    Minor scales are two notes below

  • I dont want to sound stupid but when you play a scale in a song, do you have to play the scale in order? I mean you hear like Ska songs and they're all over the place

  • There are fifty-million videos and books teaching scales, but there isn't a single video or book teaching you how to actually use the bloody things to make music.

  • I hate when people smack every time they talk

  • to be honest are u dum piano players and sax players don't have to think about the notes to play a scale coming from my experience

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