How to Play Bass: Improving your Scales

To play a scale chromatically and stay one position rather than to go, let us say, you playing it in C

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Rather than to go

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You can go like this

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And, you are staying within three-four frets.

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You can go backwards

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So, there is a lot of movement going on.

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This is the reach point here.

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Now, you can practice this, doing these on all the other scales

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Like A

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And so on throughout the whole neck.

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I like to make a choice on what position I am going to play according to where I am going to go next as I play the run. Let us say, if I am going to go down in the neck, I will go like this

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In this position

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If I am going to go up

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I use this other position.


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