Bass Guitar Scales : Top Reasons To Learn Them

By Nick Dillon


By learning bass guitar scales you will advance your bass playing on many different levels. It will give you the expressive and creative means to grow as a musician making your playing more enjoyable and fulfilling.

Applying and knowing bass guitar scales has many pluses. It will allow you to play along with a band very easily, compose your own music, add strength your fingers, explore different styles of music, allow your music to convey emotion or feel and ultimately allow your playing to advance rapidly.

When you can implement and play different bass guitar scales you can very easily play along with a band simply by knowing what key they are in. This means you can improvise in most situations very easily, as you know exactly what notes are available to you.

By knowing bass guitar scales it is easy to create music because you already know how certain scales sound. You don't need to experiment with notes to know which ones give you the desired effect. This opens up your creative channels and allows you to apply the scale rather than experimenting with different notes to give you a desired effect.

By applying bass guitar scales you can easily convey emotion with your music. For example to create a darker sound you will already know that minor scales have this effect on your audience. To convey a happy, bright feel, you will already know that the major third will help convey this feeling. Thus by knowing how the different intervals contained in scales sound and feel, you can convey your message more accurately in your playing.

By learning bass guitar scale patterns and repeating them many times as you practice, you will strengthen your fingers and embed the scale pattern in your playing and improvising. As time progresses, your playing will get easier, as your fingers will start to naturally fall into the scale shape patterns without much thought. Your overall playing will be more relaxed and enjoyable as your fingers naturally know where the correct notes lie.

By applying various bass guitar scales you can easily focus in on the sound of different genres or styles of music. As an example, you may choose to learn the minor pentatonic scale if you are interested in blues or rock music, or you may learn the Phrygian dominant mode if you would like to add some Spanish or eastern "flavour" to your music. Distinct scales are often associated with certain genres and styles of music, by knowing the different scales you can greatly add to the diversity of your sound.

Hopefully you now understand the importance of learning bass guitar scales. Your playing will improve greatly even if you know just a few scales that relate to the style of music that you play.




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