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I often tell students that they want to have some fingers to use when they get to the new position. Whenever possible, we want to lead with a lower numbered finger when ascending the bass and lead with a higher numbered finger when descending the bass. It also happens to be a great exercise for developing two of the most fundamental “fingering rules” on the bass:

I think of this is a “training wheels” chromatic scale. Approach #1 – Half and First position Chromatic Scale Remember, you can also download all these examples as a PDF if you like. All three will teach you to look at the bass fingerboard in a new way, and I continue to practice all three approaches on a regular basis. Here are my three favorite ways to approach chromatic scales, arranged in order of complexity. When approached intelligently, however, mastering chromatic scales will level up your bass game tremendously, and there are several good entry points that I recommend for beginning and intermediate bassists. They can you into unfamiliar positions and, it can be hard to understand how to play them in tune at first.Įven referring to them as “scales” (plural) is misleading since, in reality, there’s just one gigantic chromatic scale from the lowest to highest register for every instrument. They also happen to be one of the most frustrating things for beginners to practice, however.Ĭhromatic scales don’t map neatly onto the bass fingerboard.

In so ways, they are the most important scale to practice. I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with chromatic scales. Chromatic Scales are Deceptively Challenging We’ve created a downloadable PDF guide for all of these, and we’ve got a PDF with these chromatic scale exercises for you here as well. So far, we’ve covered one octave major scales, minor scales, and major arpeggios.

We’re continuing our beginner bass series this week with chromatic scales.

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