Scott from SBL has a lesson on that https://youtu.be/Y7X6-FiPFfs
Yup, doing this will help you 100% learning the frettboard notes on your bass. Scott approved Big Al approved.
Great Job @sshoihet,finding that video.
Shower thought.
If our instrument is tuned in fourths, wouldnât the circle of fourths be better?
Better for what?
BTW, your instrument is tuned in fifths from G down to E. Take that back to the shower for a while.
The circle of 5ths backwards is the circle of fourths.
Just came across this topic today. Itâs kind of personal to my journey as it happens. I suppose Iâm learning the fretboard twice. The first time around it was sheer brute force. Diagrams, memorizing, going one fret at a time. Luckily Iâm quite happy with that kind of work. The second time around is when it dawned on me that âknowingâ the frets isnât enough, that they have to be even more internalized so you can do stuff without thinking about it. I guess the first time around, âknowingâ meant more from the perspective of talking about it. I could point to all the frets and name them, I knew where all the scales could be played as well as all the chords. But that isnât the same as playing it. So now on round two, itâs doing some things that Iâd seen offered above, play through the circle of 5ths using scales, chord progressions, as well play this stuff in various intervals 2nds, 3rds, 4ths etc. Finally, for me, I needed to put that in my daily practice routine. I guess that is more of the brute force I mentioned above. Anyways, doing that I have been able to see improvement in my ability to move around without having to think so hard.
Great methods for learning the fretboard.
OK I can get it back to the bathroom, it still tells me that bass is tuned in fourths
Going up strings from E to G - fourths
Going down strings G to E - fifths
Yep. Ascending is fourths, descending is fifths. Which makes sense when you think about it. A perfect fourth is five semitones, and a perfect fifth is seven; there are 12 semitones in an octave. Fifth plus fourth = octave; hence, ascending will be one and descending the other.