How to Play a Two Finger Major Scale on the Bass

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Percy White: Hi, I am Percy and this is bass playing series. In this segment I am going to show you how to play a major scale over two strings. Playing a major scale over two strings is important because if you are playing a song and you only know how to play a scale over two strings or four strings and you down here, and you want to want a scale and you dont have a space and then you are kind of lost, so it's important to know how to play a scale over multitude of string, different patterns and this lesson is going to be how to play a major scale over two strings. Now, remember the fingerings that I give you are not the end all and be all of fingerings. These are just the most optimal to get the task accomplished, okay. So, we are going to start with the number of your fingers; one, two, three, and four, each finger has it's own number, but this one we are going to be moving up and down the fret. So, Ill tell you what to do and how to do and Ill give you the number to practice. We are going to start off on the G which is the third fret down from the top, if you are playing a four string bass, it will be the lowest string on the E string and the third fret down. So, here how it's going to work; you are going to take your first finger, the number one and you are going to fly it down two frets, hit it again, then you will take the third finger, three and then four, and you can go to the next string, keeping in the same position, lets go to the next string, first finger, one, slide it again, one, three and four. One, slide one, three, four, one, slide one, three, four, that is a major scale over two strings and you will play it back wards; one, slide, three four, one, slide, three four and backwards, four, three, one, slide, four, three one, slide, and as always you alternate your right hand for every note. That is a major scale over two strings.

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