Bass Scales for Beginners (5 Stupidly Simple Steps)

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Getting overwhelmed trying to learn bass scales and actually make music? Sidestep the struggle with this simple step-by-step method.

If you’re doing the Beginner to Badass course, this lesson would fit after you learn the major scale in Module 7.

Beginner Bass Scales PDF

Even if you’ve completed Beginner to Badass, you’ll still get great mileage out of some of the exercises in this video, especially the ear training with the melodies in the PDF -

I hope this lesson helped you learn bass scales… and didn’t activate your LEGO Acquisition Syndrome too hard. :brick:

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Thanks for this video @JoshFossgreen . As always, a lot of fun and informative.

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Another great lesson vid on the Utubes

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Love it! I like the copy and paste method to go lower, seems that is often missed by beginners (like me) - well done!

Now, I need to go to random.org and I need to find that Lego kit… :grin:

Cheers,
Antonio

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This was a really fantastic video @JoshFossgreen that will add a huge building block ( pardon the pun) to my bass repertoire. It was the missing link! Thanks for all your fun and amazing videos as well as your course and this outstanding forum. Bass playing has never been this enjoyable.

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Thank you @JoshFossgreen . yet again you make it simple enough that i can actually get it. Well done, sir!

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But did you finish the lego bass?

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Another great lesson video Josh. Very useful info. Still waiting on the metal bass lines video though! :grinning:

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Glowing fretting fingers and that transition with the lego manual… nice.

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That was really great. But you Americans calling it Legos :roll_eyes:

Ask the Danes @joergkutter and they’ll tell you as they invented it. Lego is both singular and plural :wink:

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True that, @Barney - the only acceptable plural would be lego bricks :sunglasses:

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Or “Legos” if you want to communicate with Americans. :crazy_face:

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tenor

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:crazy_face: :us:

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There are 2 error messages when I download the pdf. I cannot read it after I save it to my computer

Bass Buzz major Scale error msg
Bass Buzz major Scale error msg1154×988 97 KB

Bass Buzz major scales error # 2 2025-07-04 121034
Bass Buzz major scales error # 2 2025-07-04 121034769×347 26.1 KB

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If I open the PDF by clicking on it, Chrome displays it correctly. If I right-click on the link and save the PDF to disk and then open it with Adobe Acrobat Reader, I get the same error messages. I tracked down and installed the free Poppins .TTF font family, but still get the same error. Strange. At least you can open it correctly in a browser.

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Thanks for the error reports y’all, I will look into making our PDFs not harass you for fonts!