One of the key requirements for playing bass with complete freedom is to be able to move to any part of the neck and play what's in your head.
When you break it down, it's a case of learning a few shapes and playing them off a root note in different directions. That's one of the cool things about bass: we can use patterns. You have many options for playing the same thing in different places, and this requires a deep knowledge of different fingering patterns as well as the various triads, arpeggios, and scales.
This lesson will totally open up the fretboard for you and get you playing in different places.
Scroll down for the free backing track.
Practice Backing Track
Use this backing track to connect the shapes together. Start off by simply finding all the B notes on the fretboard.
This lesson will help you with that if you're a bit stuck:
If you'd like all the shapes from this lesson mapped out with easy-to-read fretboard diagrams, plus all modes, scales, arpeggios, triads, and chords, you can find it all in my Music Theory For Bass Players course.
