Practice Scales THIS Way & You’ll Sound AMAZING

Why not practise making up bass lines at the same time as learning new shapes and patterns?

In this bass tutorial, I'll how you show to take some common bass guitar scales (major, major pentatonic, natural minor, minor pentatonic, and dorian) and instantly make up great sounding bass lines and fills.

Make sure to download the free PDF and drums below so you can get down to some serious practice!

Bass Scales PDF

Download the scales use in the lesson here.

Bass Scales Drum Backing

Use this drumbeat (or any of my others or your own) to create all kinds of music with the shapes above.


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