Learn How to Play Bass in 5 Minutes!

[Baloney Balderdash]

You don't need perfect pitch or to learn all the different scales.

 

All you need is to pay attention to shapes on the fretboard, and how different intervals between notes sound, and to realize that all the common scales are really just the exact same scale, the Major one, starting at different points (which is called modes), which then magically becomes the root note.

 

It does help if you learn all the notes of the fretboard though, but again paying attention to shapes and intervals, and the relation between these, helps with that, and playing a 5 string bass helps easier making sense of all this too.

 

Learning the different chord shapes, and more exotic scales (which though, when learned, you can use the exact same principle on as with the Major scale), will help you as well.

 

Edited April 16 by Baloney Balderdash