Advanced Bass Guitar in A Major

Series Summary

The guitar has been around for nearly 5,000 years, developed from even more ancient instruments akin to the sitar, it has been inspiring audiences since its first chord was strummed. It is the primary instrument involved with many genres of music including country, blues, flamenco, rock, and pop, and has been celebrated as one of the most expressive instruments in the world. Whether blending acoustic harmonies on a classical guitar or shredding solos on an electric guitar, the importance of the guitar to 20th century music cannot be ignored.

In this free video series, our expert Ryan Larson will introduce visual scales and tab scales, show you how to analyze the root bass note in every measure, and give you some tip, advice, and techniques for playing the advanced bass guitar. He will also show you some tips and advice on how to play the latin and jazz bass guitar, so get ready to walk your bass line right into stardom!

Video Transcript

"RYAN LARSON: So, today we're going to focus on the key of A major and we're going to go through our A major scale and it starts right here. And we're using this position where the root is on our pinkie and that's the scale you would use. And what's great about this scale is you can move it to any position on the bass. So, if I want to move it up here to D flat--but today, we're focusing mainly on A and we're going to through and analyze a tune in A and we're going to through and show you how to find all the different root notes and then how to apply the different scales that we've learned and utilized over these different root notes so you can really get a good idea or a concept of how to walk through some harder fake book tunes that switch around into different keys."