The nice thing about the bass is, once you’ve learned the intervals of the Major, minor, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian, etc, scales, you can play any scale from any root note, anywhere on the fretboard.
Great vid, @JoshFossgreen. After a 10 day playing hiatus this was the perfect way to remotivate me, and give me something new without jumping back in where I left off.
I am trying
Once you know them on one instrument it is not too much of an ask to play them on another.
I play sax a little so I am ahead of the game on that but I am completely new to piano and bass
Even if I don’t know them all by the end of the month, I will know a lot more than I do now
So I said I was going to use this as my easing back into playing after a break, and so I am, but I just wanted to ask @JoshFossgreen if he has an opinion on John Williams as he seems to have assigned a middle name on the transcription.
Great video, @JoshFossgreen! However, I had to stop it after the first 30 seconds to deal with the laughing cramps for a second…
You know, maybe you could have asked us here in the forum to give it a go with the E/A vamp and come up with our own basslines first, and perhaps included a few short “soundbites” from your students into the video!? Nah, maybe not…
But, seriously: very well-done video, awesome way to illustrate how learning turns into fun and how “dry” knowledge can turn into great music!
As I usually do with your YouTube and lessons, I watched this once without my bass, then again with it in hands. Because I knew the early stuff well enough I was playing Bassbot’s version of the major scale as I listened to you, then switched to some improv afterwards. Thoroughly enjoyed the time plucking.
Starts one of the following interactive tutorials: tutorial, advanced tutorial.
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