Scale Studies for Bass

Mel Bay Publications
Lvel: Beginning-Intermediate

Knowing your scales and arpeggios is one of the keys to developing new and creative bass lines. Whether you are a student of jazz, or a full on heavy metal monster, this book will help you to learn some of the arpeggios and scales that are important elements in writing great bass lines and great bass solos.
This book will take you through, step by step, how to learn, and then practice your major scales and arpeggios in one octave, two octaves and how to connect them up and down your fingerboard.

Contents:
• The Major Scale       
• The Circle of Fourths       
• One Octave Major Scales       
• Full Position Patterns       
• Single String Studies       
• Full Major Scales/Entire Neck       
• Four Different Possibilities of Complete C Major Scale Up and Down the Neck