Essential Advanced Scales for Electric Bass

Download or read book Essential Advanced Scales for Electric Bass written by Max Palermo and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Advanced Scales for Electric Bass is a quick reference guide aimed at music students of all levels, tackling the scales commonly used in improvising and bass line construction. This book further develops topics dealt with in the preceding Essential Scales for Electric Bass, concentrating on new and advanced scales that will provide the bassist with a wider variety of sounds and colors to add more personality to his playing. Each scale in the book is preceded by an introductory chart summarizing the theory and practical application. The development in all the keys follows in standard notation and tablature, together with fingering for 4- and 5-string basses. Topics include: melodic minor, harmonic minor, diminished, whole-tone, and blues scales.