Scott…..the visual frets at the side are fantastic…. It makes your videos so much easier to understand. I am a complete newbie and have been looking at your past videos and couldn’t really see what chords you were playing a lot of the time. For us real beginners it really help and is appreciated. Thank You
Hi Scott, Holy shit! I'm now 80 and been 'playing' bass for over 50 years trudging out mostly the same bass lines - learning new stuff when in a new band/genre with their repertoire as the motivation. The problem is that none of those processes made me analyse what I was doing. I clicked onto this video and it was like a Damascus revelation! Gobsmacked! I can now set to and actually LEARN what I'm playing instead of just trudging (although enjoyably) along the same paths. Grateful thanks - and you are a great teacher. Respect!
Great lesson. This I actually learned it 30 years ago, but you are explaining it really well. It’s not an easy concept, it takes time. And yes the second most important is the chromatic scale, and when you know how to choose which one is needed you have no more boundaries. Thank you a lot. Melodic minor and harmonic minor are just slightly different, super easy to incorporate after you know the modes.
I’ve watched this a few times, but this most recent viewing unlocked something in my brain - the various modes don’t have to be overwhelming, seemingly pretentious, terms. Dorian, Mixolydian, Ionian, Phrygian, etc., are no longer under-the-bed monsters that strike terror in my vulnerable psyche. How refreshing to enjoy an expanded musical vocabulary. Thank you, Scott! Blessings, Grace and Peace 😊
Discovering that knowing the major scale gives endless opportunities for improvising or building bass lines was my biggest step in the last years. And it makes you understand the theorie of music. Thank you Scott!
I am a not so bad self thought musician and love playing bass. I can recommend anybody to not just watch the video but like myself finally take up the bass, watch the video In pieces, practice 20 minutes for some days, asking myself ok but that’s kinda dry and what’s the point, and then after some days getting the point of how useful that is and how good to know and how this can lvl up my playing while literally doing it. Thanks for posting so many times that I could not longer ignore actually listening and practicing 😅❤
This can't be repeated enough - thanks Scott. Sometimes I forget to refresh myself on the importance of this concept for all musicians and all styles of music.
I feel like I have watched this before in this channel already - 5 most important scales - The only scale you need to learn - The scale that changes everything - The most important scale you will ever learn And now one scale to rule them all And I did not include here the scale to master the fingerboard. Not that I am complaining about the quality, I just feel that I have been watching this over and over. Anyway, still a good job on the quality! The old videos has helped me alot as well :)
@@voidCommander I understand the idea that a recreating old video may help new people, but the previous C major scale video was from 4 months ago. They differ in content a bit, but the tiles are becoming clickbait.
"When you are ready to learn, a teacher will appear" - I started playing during the shutdown, watched you scale videos usually lost halfway through. THIS video made complete sense and I understand what you were doing. (Learning how will be a different story), but I get the concept! Thank you Scott!
Also fun thing to help with solo run ideas; assend with the arpeggio and decend with the mode. Eg. start on Cmaj7 1,3,5,7 assending and then decend with the Ionian mode, assend with Dm7 arpeggio and decend with D Dorian etc.
Thank you for the download Scott. I am new to bass but already play drums. Long overdue that I take the time to lay a foundation on a melodic instrument. I have enjoyed much of your other content also. Good quality education and entertainment. I recommend you to anyone interested in bass.
Scott, must thank you for teaching me what I already know but didn't realise I knew. You never cease to amaze me and stretch my base of knowledge. Thank you again sir.
Dude, just downloaded the workbook and as a guy who has been “playing bass” as a second instrument for a while using cookie cutter tabs in cover bands, it has been really difficult to actually start a course as I am too advanced for a beginners course but there are holes in my knowledge so an intermediate or advanced course would not be something I could just pick up from. All that being said, I’ve been struggling with the modes and scales for a long while now and this workbook is exactly what I need to press on and learn to use the scales musically. Your channel is always a help to me, but this is particularly amazing! Cheers, you’ve made one frustrated Scotsman well chuffed and energised for the bass again.
Doing parallel modes on single string, through all the keys in 4th, starting in F Dorian and ending in C Locrian on all the strings, that's a fun exercise! It takes time, but if you don't know your fingerboard before this adventure, you definitely will after, that's for sure!
It amazes me how many times videos with this concept have to keep being made. If music theory was taught properly, there wouldn’t be any confusions or misconceptions, but it never is. I’ve worked and played with musicians that have degrees in music or music performance that still can’t understand how all the details and puzzle pieces they’ve learned go together. It takes quite a long time of study and practice of actual music in various styles to start making sense out if it all. It also has to be well understood that music is dynamic and can vary theoretically at any instant, and that evaluation of such is best understood by the ability to process from multiple angles.
I have been around long enough to have played with some serious old Blues Dudes. Best still living is Buddy Guy who I only hung with for a weekend, but for him he called it his key, and I heard it. Pentatonic as a primary, but if he said A I was in A. As a teen I was called upon by a locally famous C&W guy to replace his pregnant wife on an upright I had never before touched. She could no longer reach it all. I played a 1-3-5/5-31 all night long as he sang Buck Owens greatest hits. Great lesson from you as it demonstrates, even if you didn't notice, the baine of playing well is OVERTHINKING.
Scott I would like to say thank u for releasing this video so I can play the scale. I always wanted to play bass but I do not know how. So now I'm learning bass,I can now get to know bass better. Love L.
Yeah true but there's usually a slightly different perspective etc added in. Like others, his probably covered nearly everything for bass players, so looks at how can he improve a previous lesson. You never stop learning,. Cheers
Brilliant, Scott. About half of everything a bass player ever needs to learn is right here. Haha I replayed Jaco's first album and had a laugh, I kept hearing your discussion points coming to life as i listened. (eg Continuum) Something popped into my head while I watched your vid - the Zan garden - practicing this stuff without fighting the process with negativity (boredom, impatience etc.). It really improves the pace of learning when the chattering brain is quiet... Anyway, thanks for bringing it, Scott!
as a multi-instrumentalist, the piano/keyboard is of great help for all this, as is the accordeon for the pentatonic circle (on the bass side :-D) - so I agree to C-major as the most important scale, hast been this way all my life :)
Great way of explaining how it all hangs together. Great lesson that gave some new insight in the connection between scales that you might not have thought about. Big thanks!
And here I was messing around with the Hungarian minor scale and playing the major scale on a minor tuned instrument because it was a more interesting approach with unique harmony potentials...
Brother, this is true of most musicians, not just the bottom feeders. Lol 😉 After playing in civilian and military bands for a while now, I've only met a handful of players who know modes, let alone understanding how modes relate to their major counterparts... then there's the select few who can boogie around all their scales like an acrobat. (Even at my best, I could never run scales in 5ths or 6ths)
Knowing the modes is cool. However as I get better I really don't father anymore . Having a good surpasses all . Heck look at Eddie Van Halen he didn't know any scales .
Nice Yamaha BB. I want one as my next bass to compliment my Stingray. Also, one kind of exercise that I've gotten stuck in is playing from 7-9-10-12 frets through the strings. Dunno if it's good practice or if it matches anything. This lesson reminded me of some scale names that might help me put the pieces together.
i have been playing a very long time and always learn some from you ,hoping to afford a lesson ! old band getting back together, last gig march ,b4 the well idk what to call but thank you Scott great playing bro! peace and thankyou, john gunzenhauser, johnny gunz lol named early 90s thanks again 🎸🎸😎
Nice to see Scott doing some environmental work to save the planet by recycling videos! lol ;) Seriously though - really good reminder to me about how much I really need to learn. :)
Yeah, it might be a recycled topic, but each time he does that kind of thing he adds something new or presents it in a different way. I'm sure you were able to take something away from this video. I've been playing for 30 years and I was able to find something new.
This is exactly how “Billy Sheehan” can play all the modes, although he said “he doesn’t really know anything about them.” Master the Major scale and playing within a key!
I FIGURED THIS OUT WHEN I WAS 10 I GOT A MUSICAL DICTIONARY AND APPLIED IT TO GUITAR AND BASS AND LEARNED WHERE ALL THE NOTES WERE YOUR POST WILL CERTAINLY HELP BEGINING & INTERMEDIATE PLAYERS I ENJOY ALL OF YOUR POSTS SCOTT I'VE PLAYED BASS & GUITAR SINCE 1960 BACK IN 1967 I STARTED WRITING AND THAT'S WHERE I APPLY MY KNOWLEDGE YOUR CHANNEL PROVIDES SO MUCH EVIDENT & IMPORTANT INFORMATION I ALWAYS ENJOY PAYING CLOSE AND PRECISE ATTENTION TO YOUR WORD THANK YOU SO MUCH CARLOS GUITARLOS 90042 USA
The happy place to understand the concept really is the piano! All white keys for all the modes and scales based on c major--> then go back to the bass 🙂
Great lesson as ever Scott, how far does the scale pattern go one string with a 21 fret bass? What I mean was that on the final exercise of the PDF, playing the C major on the A, D and G strings, you go up to fret 22, because in the lesson you played with a 24 fret bass. What do you suggest?
Scales are so important just ask Paul Davis. If you say who, you might be a base player. Great concept video, I don’t even have a base but I play base. All guitar players play base.
Scott. Could you please tell us how you got that tone?! That is how I want my G&L to sound. Is it an effects peddle? Software? Please tell us how to get that sound (in addition to practice!). Thanks for all you do!
Scott. Please tell us how you got the beautiful tone featured on this video! And one more; what bass is that you are playing? I love it. Please share. Thanks a ton
Playing scales on one string was what taught me the fretboard when I first started playing. A very valuable practice routine.
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Scott…..the visual frets at the side are fantastic…. It makes your videos so much easier to understand. I am a complete newbie and have been looking at your past videos and couldn’t really see what chords you were playing a lot of the time. For us real beginners it really help and is appreciated. Thank You
Hi Scott, Holy shit! I'm now 80 and been 'playing' bass for over 50 years trudging out mostly the same bass lines - learning new stuff when in a new band/genre with their repertoire as the motivation. The problem is that none of those processes made me analyse what I was doing. I clicked onto this video and it was like a Damascus revelation! Gobsmacked! I can now set to and actually LEARN what I'm playing instead of just trudging (although enjoyably) along the same paths. Grateful thanks - and you are a great teacher. Respect!
Great lesson. This I actually learned it 30 years ago, but you are explaining it really well. It’s not an easy concept, it takes time. And yes the second most important is the chromatic scale, and when you know how to choose which one is needed you have no more boundaries.
Thank you a lot. Melodic minor and harmonic minor are just slightly different, super easy to incorporate after you know the modes.
I’ve watched this a few times, but this most recent viewing unlocked something in my brain - the various modes don’t have to be overwhelming, seemingly pretentious, terms. Dorian, Mixolydian, Ionian, Phrygian, etc., are no longer under-the-bed monsters that strike terror in my vulnerable psyche. How refreshing to enjoy an expanded musical vocabulary.
Thank you, Scott!
Blessings, Grace and Peace 😊
Discovering that knowing the major scale gives endless opportunities for improvising or building bass lines was my biggest step in the last years. And it makes you understand the theorie of music. Thank you Scott!
You’re so fluid scott. Make a video on fluidity
I am a not so bad self thought musician and love playing bass. I can recommend anybody to not just watch the video but like myself finally take up the bass, watch the video In pieces, practice 20 minutes for some days, asking myself ok but that’s kinda dry and what’s the point, and then after some days getting the point of how useful that is and how good to know and how this can lvl up my playing while literally doing it.
Thanks for posting so many times that I could not longer ignore actually listening and practicing 😅❤
This can't be repeated enough - thanks Scott. Sometimes I forget to refresh myself on the importance of this concept for all musicians and all styles of music.
You just learned to all your audience the equivalent of what I learned about harmony on 4 years of elemental music school.
Good freaking job.
The main thing I learned from watching your channel is that the greatest music ever written for the bass is scales.
I feel like I have watched this before in this channel already
- 5 most important scales
- The only scale you need to learn
- The scale that changes everything
- The most important scale you will ever learn
And now one scale to rule them all
And I did not include here the scale to master the fingerboard.
Not that I am complaining about the quality, I just feel that I have been watching this over and over.
Anyway, still a good job on the quality! The old videos has helped me alot as well :)
@@voidCommander I understand the idea that a recreating old video may help new people, but the previous C major scale video was from 4 months ago. They differ in content a bit, but the tiles are becoming clickbait.
"When you are ready to learn, a teacher will appear" - I started playing during the shutdown, watched you scale videos usually lost halfway through. THIS video made complete sense and I understand what you were doing. (Learning how will be a different story), but I get the concept! Thank you Scott!
Scott, I love just to make noise to clear my head with bass. But I do totally respect you brother.
I have to pause the video to thank you for this. This probably is the best lesson I have seen ever.
❤❤ valuable down to the core ❤❤
Also fun thing to help with solo run ideas; assend with the arpeggio and decend with the mode. Eg. start on Cmaj7 1,3,5,7 assending and then decend with the Ionian mode, assend with Dm7 arpeggio and decend with D Dorian etc.
Lovin the frog head on tuner lol. Great video by the way :)
Thank you for the download Scott. I am new to bass but already play drums. Long overdue that I take the time to lay a foundation on a melodic instrument. I have enjoyed much of your other content also. Good quality education and entertainment. I recommend you to anyone interested in bass.
Scott, must thank you for teaching me what I already know but didn't realise I knew. You never cease to amaze me and stretch my base of knowledge. Thank you again sir.
Dude, just downloaded the workbook and as a guy who has been “playing bass” as a second instrument for a while using cookie cutter tabs in cover bands, it has been really difficult to actually start a course as I am too advanced for a beginners course but there are holes in my knowledge so an intermediate or advanced course would not be something I could just pick up from. All that being said, I’ve been struggling with the modes and scales for a long while now and this workbook is exactly what I need to press on and learn to use the scales musically. Your channel is always a help to me, but this is particularly amazing! Cheers, you’ve made one frustrated Scotsman well chuffed and energised for the bass again.
Doing parallel modes on single string, through all the keys in 4th, starting in F Dorian and ending in C Locrian on all the strings, that's a fun exercise! It takes time, but if you don't know your fingerboard before this adventure, you definitely will after, that's for sure!
It amazes me how many times videos with this concept have to keep being made. If music theory was taught properly, there wouldn’t be any confusions or misconceptions, but it never is. I’ve worked and played with musicians that have degrees in music or music performance that still can’t understand how all the details and puzzle pieces they’ve learned go together. It takes quite a long time of study and practice of actual music in various styles to start making sense out if it all. It also has to be well understood that music is dynamic and can vary theoretically at any instant, and that evaluation of such is best understood by the ability to process from multiple angles.
I've literally been practicing all this stuff by accident the last few years. Wish I could mail this video back in time to myself 20 years ago
I do not speak English because I am Brazilian, but I follow your videos which are very good, Congratulations on your work brother.🇧🇷
The Diminished whole tone scale is my fav..the Be Boppers in the 40’s and 50’s put it to good use.
I have been around long enough to have played with some serious old Blues Dudes. Best still living is Buddy Guy who I only hung with for a weekend, but for him he called it his key, and I heard it. Pentatonic as a primary, but if he said A I was in A. As a teen I was called upon by a locally famous C&W guy to replace his pregnant wife on an upright I had never before touched. She could no longer reach it all. I played a 1-3-5/5-31 all night long as he sang Buck Owens greatest hits. Great lesson from you as it demonstrates, even if you didn't notice, the baine of playing well is OVERTHINKING.
I love my scales and modes so much fun soloing over them. And arpeggios too.
Excellent class. God bless you all. 😀
Scott I would like to say thank u for releasing this video so I can play the scale. I always wanted to play bass but I do not know how. So now I'm learning bass,I can now get to know bass better. Love L.
Scott made me realize that the quickest way to learn the Modes is to listen to The Sound of Music's soundtrack.🤣🤣🤣
Jokes aside, great lesson!😃
I just learned so much. This is incredible teaching, I just started playing bass a week ago
I feel like scott posts this video every 3 months
this one's the best though cheers Scott
Yeah true but there's usually a slightly different perspective etc added in.
Like others, his probably covered nearly everything for bass players, so looks at how can he improve a previous lesson.
You never stop learning,. Cheers
Same here
don see why he shouldn't. Its a brill one to revisit as a refresher...
So have you learnt it well enough to teach it to somebody else?? That's the real test of understanding!
Brilliant, Scott. About half of everything a bass player ever needs to learn is right here. Haha I replayed Jaco's first album and had a laugh, I kept hearing your discussion points coming to life as i listened. (eg Continuum) Something popped into my head while I watched your vid - the Zan garden - practicing this stuff without fighting the process with negativity (boredom, impatience etc.). It really improves the pace of learning when the chattering brain is quiet... Anyway, thanks for bringing it, Scott!
as a multi-instrumentalist, the piano/keyboard is of great help for all this, as is the accordeon for the pentatonic circle (on the bass side :-D) - so I agree to C-major as the most important scale, hast been this way all my life :)
Scott’s a hero! Great teacher
Great way of explaining how it all hangs together. Great lesson that gave some new insight in the connection between scales that you might not have thought about. Big thanks!
And here I was messing around with the Hungarian minor scale and playing the major scale on a minor tuned instrument because it was a more interesting approach with unique harmony potentials...
Brilliant lesson, the teaching approach is so relaxed and easy to follow. Thank you
if i had to choose just one scale, it would be the blues scale.....everything you do in it just sounds so awesome.....
I LOVED the homer bit, I love homer, thanks so much!
Wow thanks - I thunk I get it now. Off to the board for some guided practice. Not the usual tripe I do! Nice one Scott.
Okay . I’m going to make time to practices my scales . Seems really cool and fun playing them 🤔
I really like this lesson. Thanks Scott 👍
@2:44 .. It is literally impossible for Scot to play a simple Cmajor scale and nothing else
Thanks that was very helpful as easy to understand
Brother, this is true of most musicians, not just the bottom feeders. Lol 😉
After playing in civilian and military bands for a while now, I've only met a handful of players who know modes, let alone understanding how modes relate to their major counterparts... then there's the select few who can boogie around all their scales like an acrobat. (Even at my best, I could never run scales in 5ths or 6ths)
This was how I was taught the modes. I didn’t learn them, but still...
😂
Great Video
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Knowing the modes is cool. However as I get better I really don't father anymore . Having a good surpasses all . Heck look at Eddie Van Halen he didn't know any scales .
Thank you for this. This helps a lot.
Yes I have been totally overwhelmed
Finally some clarity!!! Thanks!!
Nice Yamaha BB. I want one as my next bass to compliment my Stingray. Also, one kind of exercise that I've gotten stuck in is playing from 7-9-10-12 frets through the strings. Dunno if it's good practice or if it matches anything. This lesson reminded me of some scale names that might help me put the pieces together.
Simple, straight up. Thanks!
Thank you very much, brother!
Hey,
bow down to yr new scale tha makes it clear for a little fuzzy preson lilke me. Thank ya!!
Sounds like the Sound of Music. Oh, wait a minute, it is the sound of music! These are some great exercises too. Well done!
This is great Scott. Thank you!
Outstanding Mental And Physical Exercise - Much Appreciated
Cheers
i have been playing a very long time and always learn some from you ,hoping to afford a lesson ! old band getting back together, last gig march ,b4 the well idk what to call but thank you Scott great playing bro! peace and thankyou, john gunzenhauser, johnny gunz lol named early 90s thanks again 🎸🎸😎
Nice to see Scott doing some environmental work to save the planet by recycling videos! lol ;)
Seriously though - really good reminder to me about how much I really need to learn. :)
Yeah, it might be a recycled topic, but each time he does that kind of thing he adds something new or presents it in a different way. I'm sure you were able to take something away from this video. I've been playing for 30 years and I was able to find something new.
@@jcout25 - it's literally an old video though. /whoosh.
@@voidCommander - nope. No problem. Just a joke. /whoosh
This is exactly how “Billy Sheehan” can play all the modes, although he said “he doesn’t really know anything about them.”
Master the Major scale and playing within a key!
I FIGURED THIS OUT WHEN I WAS 10
I GOT A MUSICAL DICTIONARY AND APPLIED IT TO GUITAR AND BASS AND LEARNED WHERE ALL THE NOTES WERE
YOUR POST WILL CERTAINLY HELP BEGINING & INTERMEDIATE PLAYERS
I ENJOY ALL OF YOUR POSTS SCOTT
I'VE PLAYED BASS & GUITAR SINCE 1960
BACK IN 1967 I STARTED WRITING AND THAT'S WHERE I APPLY MY KNOWLEDGE
YOUR CHANNEL PROVIDES SO MUCH EVIDENT & IMPORTANT INFORMATION
I ALWAYS ENJOY PAYING CLOSE AND PRECISE ATTENTION TO YOUR WORD
THANK YOU SO MUCH
CARLOS GUITARLOS 90042 USA
Excellent lesson !!
Great video reminder that we already know stuff but don't know that we know! - erm... I think. Cheers for a great lesson.
That Bass Sounds Beuty!
Great Lesson, thank you Bro
Only 7 notes in any given scale..yet we often neglect the basics...good lesson.
No
Dude, where have you been hiding that Yamaha BB all this time?!!
Bro thanx so much for everything
What a tone you have there! Any light on how you achieved this?
This is the explanation I needed to get it.
that bass tone is killing
Thank you
Thanks Scott a great vid.
Light bulb moment. That's Scott
👊🏿❤️
Just that those Latin names for the scales give me a headache mate 😳😁
Thank you, Scott.
nice lesson thanks sir
Cool stuff for practice !
thank you so much for this!!
Coolest thing I’ve ver seen🔥🔥
thank you
The way those dots strobe on the fretboard diagram is oddly satisfying...
The happy place to understand the concept really is the piano! All white keys for all the modes and scales based on c major--> then go back to the bass 🙂
Nothing like that Major scale bro
really useful!
Great lesson as ever Scott, how far does the scale pattern go one string with a 21 fret bass? What I mean was that on the final exercise of the PDF, playing the C major on the A, D and G strings, you go up to fret 22, because in the lesson you played with a 24 fret bass. What do you suggest?
In that case you work within the range limits of your specific instrument, so you'll stop the exercise a little earlier!
Great youtuber, thank you 👍
You can sing ❤
thank you very much!
Scales are so important just ask Paul Davis. If you say who, you might be a base player. Great concept video, I don’t even have a base but I play base. All guitar players play base.
what effect or bass pedal are you using ??
Looks like you’re playing in Stephen Hawkins chair, great lesson I just can’t not see it. Thanks!
The frog is cute. I want one
same... Anyone know what it's called and where to get one? Thx
I found it! Not sure if its the exact same butI think its just a "finger puppet" over the tuning pegs
My mind just exploded. Not there yet.
Are those gloves regular ones? 🤔 Is just for protection or they ad to the sound?
hello all right, what is the brand of your Bass??
was that some sort of Yamaha BB near the beginning? looked pretty sweet
Scott. Could you please tell us how you got that tone?! That is how I want my G&L to sound. Is it an effects peddle? Software? Please tell us how to get that sound (in addition to practice!). Thanks for all you do!
How did you get that tone? Is a pedal being used? Thanks SBL
Scott. Please tell us how you got the beautiful tone featured on this video! And one more; what bass is that you are playing? I love it. Please share. Thanks a ton
Give the notation and tableture below