BASS FRETBOARD LAYOUT Each String Is a Mini-Piano That Can Only Play One Note at a Time The Fourth String: E "RUNNIN' WITH THE DEVIL" - Van Halen "HEY MAN NICE SHOT" - Filter The Third String: A The Second String: D The First String: G The Two Frets/Two Strings Octave Trick "GIMME SOME LOVIN'" - The Spencer Davis Group The Three Frets/Three Strings Octave Trick One Note All Over "SWEET EMOTION" - Aerosmith
BASS INTERVAL WORKOUT What Is an Interval? Interval Quantity Interval Quality "YOU REALLY GOT ME" - Van Halen Playing the Shapes "I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE" - Marvin Gaye "UNDER PRESSURE" - Queen and David Bowie "MY GIRL" - The Temptations "COME AS YOU ARE" - Nirvana "CALIFORNIA GIRLS" - The Beach Boys Ear Training
SCALE CONSTRUCTION Whole Steps and Half Steps The Major Scale "NATIONAL ANTHEM" - Radiohead Major Scale Pattern The Minor Scale "BARRACUDA" - Heart "ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST" - Queen Minor Scale Pattern
SCALE SHAPES AND GROOVE BOXES FOR THE BASS Major Scale Shapes Major Shapes: Boxing the Octaves and/or 5ths "LADY MADONNA" - The Beatles "BEAST OF BURDEN" - The Rolling Stones "AIN'T NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THING" - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell Minor Scale Shapes Minor Shapes: Boxing the Octaves and/or 5ths "MONEY" - Pink Floyd "COME OUT AND PLAY" - The Offspring "ARE YOU GONNA GO MY WAY" - Lenny Kravitz "COULDN'T STAND THE WEATHER" - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble