Right Now You Can Learn To Quickly And Easily Visualize Scale Patterns All Over The Fretboard!!!

Hey there fellow bass thrasher,

I have a really killer tip I want to share that easily goes undetected by many bassists.

I didn’t realize this for a long while, and it would have made it so much easier if I had!! That’s why I want to share
it with you now -you’ll be way ahead of where I was before this dawned on me…

For a long time I thought of pentatonic scales as the “dumb” version of Major and minor scales. This is far from the
truth. A lot of Rock, Blues, and RnB/Soul music are made up of nothing but pentatonic scales. Pentatonics outline a more
skeletal version of the Major and minor scales, and when play through two octaves, it can help make mapping the
fretboard a little more clear. It can make it a little simpler to remember where those notes are when you want to make a
large leap to a different part of the fretboard.

In this video, I go through a handy fingering pattern for a two octave minor pentatonic scale and where to shift
positions. I quickly go over the Major pentatonic pattern and typical fingering, but I just realized I never played it
in two octaves. Lemme know if you wanna see that.

If you play a Major pentatonic scale(or a regular Major scale for that matter) starting on C, then you can play the
scales “relative minor” scale by playing all the same notes starting on the A(the sixth) a step and a half(minor third)
down.

See, turns out pentatonics aren’t so dumb after all – in fact, they are a great tool to have sharpened up and ready to
bust out!

Please leave your comments and let me know if this vid helps – and be sure to catch the latest EasyBassVid updates

Jonny

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Hey there boss,

If we’re gonna play this beast, it helps to know what its made of and a little about how it works. So I wanted to do a
quick video to explain the different parts of the electric bass.

It helps to be familiar with the terminology and design to make communicating about the parts of your bass easier

At the top of the bass is the headstock. The headstock contains the tuning pegs(the things you wrap the strings around),
machine heads, and tuning keys/paddles. The point where the headstock turns into the neck is called “the heel”.

The neck contains the fretboard and all the frets. The neck and headstock are made from one piece of wood, and sometimes
the headstock, neck and middle section of the body are made from one piece of wood. That’s called a “neck through body”
design. On most basses, however, the neck is bolted or glued to the body in a fitted joint.

The fretboard is a thin piece of wood that is glued on top of the neck piece. The frets are then inlaid on top of that.
The body is the biggest part of the bass and contains the pickups/electronics, knobs, pickguard, output, and bridge.

The elctronics are encased in a cavity routered into the body. The bridge holds the “ball” end of the strings and props
them up just enough to clear the frets without buzzing.

Congrats…you can now talk about the various pieces of your bass and know what you’re talking about!

Hopefully this video does some good. Let me know if I forgot anything -

See ya on the bandstand!

Jonny

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