Alphabetical Names in the A Major Scale: Bass Guitar

Video Transcript

"RYAN LARSON: Now, we're going to go over the alphabetical names of our A major scale and we start here in A. And you have A, B, C-sharp, D, E, F-sharp and G-sharp. So, you want to write the scale down at home. Again, as I said, you can apply it to the tab. Just remember to start on the square or on the 5th root on the bottom string and you got A, B, C-sharp, D, E, F-sharp, G-sharp. And what's really useful about this is when you say, you see a C chord, all right? You go A, B, C, all right? It's a three but it's not a C-sharp. So, it's a flat 3, right? You have to lower it to a degree or say, you see an E chord, you can just go 1-2-3-4-5. All right. E is a normal chord. It's just a 5 chord or--and you can through and get all the different chord changes and find which--where the root to each of these chords is just by applying it within the scale and comparing it to how it was compared to A. So, by getting the scale onto your fingers and learning all these different notes, when you go through and see a B-flat, you can be like, "All right." Well, I have A here and here's B so B-flats a fret down and there's your B flat and then you can go apply the scale for the chord that you have to do 'cause all the scale patterns are the same. So, once you learn one scale pattern, it's just really moving around to the different bass notes. So, what we're going to really do is find the different root notes that come out of the chord changes and then move our scales around it."