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Bass Major Scales All PDF

Major scales use all the notes from the key and are built from the intervals between those notes. They are shown in five positions on the fretboard in the document. Major scales form the basis for understanding other scales as most scales and chords are derived from the notes in the major scale.

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Bass Major Scales All PDF

Major scales use all the notes from the key and are built from the intervals between those notes. They are shown in five positions on the fretboard in the document. Major scales form the basis for understanding other scales as most scales and chords are derived from the notes in the major scale.

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Bass - Major Scales

(shown in all 5 positions)

“Major” Scales use all the notes (Key of “A” = A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G#). Most scales
(and chords) can be “built” from the notes in the Major scales. So using the Major
scale as a “reference” helps when comparing to other scales (Ex: Take two notes
away, and you now have a “Minor Pentatonic” scale).

Major Scales – shown in the Key of “A”

#5 #1 #2 #3 #4

Root
Notes 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 1 1 1 1 9 1 1 1 1 12 1 1 1

5 2 2 2 2
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
4 4 4 4 4 4

* Use over Major, and Major 7th chords (Country / Southern


Rock, and Jazz chord progressions).

Picking Sequence: It is suggested to “alternate” your picking (using the 1st and 2nd fingers of your picking hand) when
practicing any of these scales - this will help develop coordination and speed between your right and left hands.

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