From the course: John Patitucci: Electric Bass Complete

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Scales

Scales

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Scales

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- Scales are essential in the development of your technique on the bass. Let me just walk you through the fingering before we start. It's open, one, four, on F sharp and G sharp on the E string. Then we're going to go open A, one, four, on E and C sharp, and one, two, four on E sharp and F sharp. Then one, two on G sharp, and A on the E string. Then we'll slide up to two on the B and four on the C sharp. We'll go one, two, four, E sharp, E, F sharp on the G string. And one, two, four, G sharp, A, and B on the G string. And finally, we'll go one, three, four on C sharp, E sharp, E. And we'll come down the same way. So here's with drum machine very slowly. (drum machine playing) (bass scaling up) (bass scaling down) Now let's try a touch brighter. Same fingering, E major, three octaves. (drum machine playing) One, two, three, four. (bass scaling up) (bass scaling down) Now notice, the shifts involved here are…

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