Need a new frontier after learning the major scale? Bring your bass or guitar skills to the next level by limiting your scales to only 2 strings. This forces you to master position changes with this easy and familiar fretboard pattern. After playing through these simple exercises you will have a better understanding of this fundamental scale by learning how to chop it up into smaller pieces and move it across your fretboard. Don’t let your frets get the better of you! Move towards mastery of your instrument and gain confidence over these elusive notes.
🎧LESSON INDEX
0:00 Lesson Intro
1:05 Pattern 1
5:18 Pattern 2
8:54 Descending Patterns
9:28 Two More Options
12:59 Playalong: All 4 Patterns
💡 LESSON TOPICS:
♪ Breaking up scale patterns
♪ Increase flexibility and access to notes
♪ 2 patterns, 4 permutations
♪ "Chopping up" the scale into smaller pieces
♪ Practicing position changes
♪ Descending patterns
♪ Switching patterns on the descent
🎥 RELATED VIDEOS
🔴 Using and Understanding Scale Degrees for Bass and Guitar | Taking the Mystery Out of Music Theory
🔴 4 Easy Scale Patterns on Guitar | Major and Minor Scales with Simple Variations
🔴 3 Major Scale Patterns to Master the B-String | Guitar Scales Made Easy
📝DOCUMENTS
🔵 Major Scale Pattern - Scale Degrees
🔵 Major Scale on 2 Strings - Scale Degrees
🧑 ABOUT ME
My name is Alex, and my passion is teaching music online. I’m a bass player and composer by training and trade, but what I really love to do is teach. I make my living teaching private lessons on Bass, Guitar, Piano, and Ukulele. My favorite thing to teach is theory - helping the students understand the “why” behind the music and empowering them to make better and more informed musical choices. I’m very adamant about teaching technique. This is how you gain power and control over your instrument and ultimately raise the ceiling on where your limits are and where they will be in the future.
I appreciate you participating in learning music with me, either for free through my videos or in private lessons in my virtual studio. Players of all abilities and backgrounds are welcome! There’s no music lesson I don’t love.
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