 Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music. In this bass guitar lesson we're basically going to have a walkthrough or a rundown of all your scales, the usual suspects which you would use in a lot of music and I'm going to first start with everyone's well-known or favorite scale, the major scale We are going to work our way through with all the positions Then we'll try and convert the major into minors using a very simple technique Which you're going to learn and then we'll try and build smaller scales the pentatonic scales and the blue scales and if you ask me Those are pretty much the main ingredients which you're going to use for grooving and playing popular music, right? So let's get cracking before we do it'll be great if you could hit that bell icon for notifications and obviously hit subscribe It'll be great to have you on board our channel and let's get cracking So the the root I have for you for this lesson is C Maybe because of being a pianist, I guess, but anyway, we'll just take C now the first thing you could do is just Position or place the following fingers on this C. You could start by placing your index See how that feels Your middle finger see how that feels and your pinky finger See how that feels now the reason why this starting note is very important to play the scale is Because of the position now if you start from your index finger You're going to end up playing in this region of the bass guitar. You're going to access data here It's going to be very awkward to kind of you see what I'm trying to do. It's impossible I'm going to damage my hand or something. So you're creating kind of a wall You're not going to go to well in this case my left anymore You're only going to access this data as far as your fingers can go So if you play with your index You're going to get things like You're going to play data there or you can play the very own major scale I'll show you that slowly now if you put your middle finger here You can get things in the middle like in this arc or in this line, right of about four frets of the bass so you can go Middle finger on C so just get used to that and late I'm going to show you the notes as well very shortly with the pinky finger You can access things to the left side at least my left towards the lower register of the base. So that'll be That's your major scale starting with the pinky You see that it all sounds the same and that's pretty much because the same notes like for example The octave See in this case will be found here It could also be found here, right? You will find your G There or You'll find your G there So you find different notes in different frets or off different strings on the bass guitar So let's get cracking with the scale. So we start with C I'm going to begin with the middle finger position because I think that's the default or the easiest one which we learn So here's how it goes. I'll do it slowly and then teach you D E F G A B C C B A G F E D C C D E F G A B C C B A G F E D C Okay with my picking hand You could all kind of alternate between your index and the middle It's not so important but Sometimes you could do that or just play it somehow assuming you play the bass with your index finger and your middle finger. So Okay, so let's break this down middle finger on C then pinky finger on D But a fret away so you skip a fret Don't play C sharp Play the D. Okay, so you do middle finger on C pinky on D Now E or the major third Will be accessed on the next string and previous fret. So C D E Got that C. So you're going to the next string going down a fret C D E Now F is the next string same fret as C or the root. This is also what we call as the perfect fourth I'm also showing you intervals by the way C D E major third Perfect fourth and look at my fingers middle pinky index middle again now Pinky again, but on the fifth C G Sapa C D E F G Okay, and the we finished five notes. Let's do the five notes together C D E F G one more time C D E F G Okay, little faster C D E F G. Maybe we can go down C D E F G F E D C one more time C D E F G F E D C. There we go. Now. Let's voyage onward C D E F G So skip two strings to play your major sixth or a in the C majors case And you get this major six on C A C A C D E F G A Okay, so a skip two strings or skip a string rather and go down a fret so E I a Major third major sixth perfect fourth perfect fifth major second Major third, so it also may help to go like C D C E C E F C G C A like that you can even go root and everything but that's of of course a little trickier could try that later So now coming to the last note or the seventh note C D E F G A B B you'll play I Guess it's the only note in this system where you play it with your ring finger C D E F G A B. How do we identify that skip a string? Go up a fret skip a string go up a fret and I'm starting on the E string You can do this pretty much from any string on the base as long as you have enough notes to play C D E F G A B and the octave is super easy. It's just the Very next fret of that same string so C D E F G A B C So C D C C D C E major third perfect fourth perfect fifth major sixth major seventh perfect octave major seventh major sixth perfect fifth major perfect fourth major third Major second Back to the root. Let's do that in this is what we call as I just call the middle finger position Some people call it the first position and so on just just see starting from the middle finger Slowly go as slow as possible Okay, so that was starting with the middle finger now we can start from our index finger and If you play if you look at it, this is where you're going to play you're going to play all these ingredients So with the index you're going to go C D D the same place as it was earlier, but you cannot play E here. There's no more you can't jump there So C D E you would play E with your pinky finger slightly tricky if you're finding it tricky It's okay. You can do the other one or just work through it C D E F G A B very symmetric Ta-na-na-na-na-na so index middle pinky index on F middle on G A with the pinky and when you do your major seventh You could bring back your index finger which you used to play with for the root, I think that's a nice fit And then end with your middle. So it's index middle pinky for the first set, C D E and then index middle pinky again for the next set and then bring back your index to play the B major seventh and with the octave. Sometimes you could also play this with your ring finger. I think that's a lot trickier so I would prefer your middle sometimes ring I mean it just kind of you can try both but pinky and index definitely for the this region C E okay so the notes again C D E F G A B second position or the index finger C B A G F E D C again C B A G F E D C okay now we have one more position to play the major scale before we are done with the major scale so you start from C with your pinky and now instead of playing D here which now you can't you'd be playing D here with your index finger here you go so next string down well two frets CD now E with your ring f with your pinky again so pinky index ring pinky let's get that pom-pom-pom-pom-pom-pom-pom-pom-pom-pom-pom-pom-pom okay moving forward C D F G G is right under that next string Same fret after the D, C, D, E, F, G, A. Now you cannot do B here, it's too much of a strain, so C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C. So B with your index finger, you just go a little bit more downward by one fret and you got yourself the B or the major seventh. Whenever I say D, it's the major second, E is the major third, F is the perfect fourth, G is the perfect fifth, A is the major sixth, B is the major seventh and C is the octave, if you play it at the octave. So C, D, E, so this is the pinky position or the third position, if you want to call it that. Pinky, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, C, B, A, G, F, E, D, C, C, D, E, F, G, A, B. You don't want to do C, D, E, F, G, A, B, flat. That's not B, that's B flat. Sometimes even I'm tempted to do that. But C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, C, B, A, G, F, E, D, C. So let's revise all the three positions for our major scale and then move on. Position one, starting with your middle finger. C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, B, A, G, F, A, D, C, C, B, A, G, F, A, D, C. Slightly trickier because of the stretch. Then you start with the pinky and then C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C, F, E, D, C. So using these shapes you can then try playing, you know, simple melodies like maybe a song like this. Twinkle, twinkle in the middle position. So now you're kind of jumbling stuff because it's the melody, right? The melody will jumble the notes. So you could try and play this in different positions. Maybe this position as well, the second position with the index starting. Then you can do it with this position. There we have it. So my advice to you with the major scale is first start with the middle finger position. That's generally what will work really well. Take breaks while playing, especially if you're new to the bass. Take for every amount of time you play, let's say five minutes or ten minutes, try to take a break for the same amount of time. It's something I need to keep telling myself as well as a bass player. So take breaks, it'll be good for your wrist and your tendons and your arm in general. And practice it with the middle position, then move on to the index position, then move on to the pinky position and then try and play simple tunes. So in the next lesson, which you need to find on our YouTube channel, we've made it very much accessible in the description and in a playlist just for bass lessons, you will find other scales, which I'm going to guide you through just to give you a rundown of the minors, the pentatonics and the blues as we talked about. So in this part, we've talked about the major scale moving forward, all the other stuff coming your way. So thanks again for watching the video. Do consider being a follower on Patreon as well as YouTube. Don't forget to hit that subscribe button, the bell icon for regular notifications and I will see you in the next one. Cheers.