Scale Visuals of an E Major Scale on a Bass Guitar

Video Transcript

"RYAN LARSON: Now we're going to give you a visual look of the E major scale as it falls on your fingers and so you can get the important notes and important frets, and actually name these frets. We'll start here on the bottom string, open E and we go up the 2nd fret, 4th fret, open, 2nd, 4th, 1st fret, 2nd. So, 0-2-4, 0-2-4, 1-2. And those are your fret markings. Now, each one of these notes has a name and if you go up to G major scale, it goes up alphabetically. You have E, G sharp, A sharp--or E, F sharp, G sharp, A, B, C sharp, D sharp, E. So we have four sharps, you have your F sharp, your G sharp, and then you have your C sharp and D sharp, but again, you're just going up the alphabet, E, F, G, A, B, C, D, E. So, those are your basic pitch in a roll--or pitches that we're going to focus on today, and we'll show you to move around the scale and how to really get it under your fingers, and how to utilize, say, using F sharp as a root or using you A as a root. So we'll go through and learn a little bit more about walking through on the bass."