This might seem like a very general question, but what scales do most people use, including soloing, in their bass playing usually?

Of course the Ionian, Dorian and pentatonic/blues gets used, but to help me in my practicing, what scales do people come across and use more often such as the more interesting ones?

Cheers

I play the chords! :eyebrow:

This might seem like a very general question, but what scales do most people use, including soloing, in their bass playing usually?

Of course the Ionian, Dorian and pentatonic/blues gets used, but to help me in my practicing, what scales do people come across and use more often such as the more interesting ones?

Cheers

In Jazz, the mixolydian passing-tone is absolutely great so is the major be-bop scale. I love the major blues scale. The modes of the melodic minor scale are awesome especially the I,IV,VI and VII. Various forms of pentatonics too. The minor harmonic is good on minor keys and the 2 diminushed scales are used a lot.

Sylvain

Great stuff! :)

I run into Dorian mode quite a bit and it sounds pretty darn cool.

+1 to Mixolydian, also Aolian.

I play the chords! :eyebrow: that make the whole world sing...


Looks like Mixolydian is a winner, I'll have to look at those harmonic stuff

that make the whole world sing...


Looks like Mixolydian is a winner, I'll have to look at those harmonic stuff

Scales are just chords with varying extensions! :)

Bruce has it. I don't think in scales anymore; I just look at the chart and "play" the chords (arpeggiate, walk stepwise or chromatically, groove on this-or-that chord tone or variant & resolve, etc).

Scales are just chords with varying extensions! :)

Where do you think the chords came from? :)

Lydian, Dorian, Mixolydian and Locrian

Chromatic is all you need, but you need to know your chords tones and extensions real well to make it work. :D

One of my fave old Jazz Improv teachers broke down learning/practicing to handling eight chord types in twelve keys. Each chord had it's related scale so here's the list of scales used.

Lydian
Dorian
Lydian b7
Locrian
Melodic Minor
Diminish Half-Whole
Diminished Whole-Half
Diminished-Whole Tone scale This scale for 7+5-9 chords spelled 1, b2, #2, #4, #5, No 6, b7.

I know some of you probably have different names for some of these scales, so call them what you want. Don't need another six page post over terminology.

Excellent stuff, thanks!

+1 to those who think in chords.

I learned to play modes and got the muscle memory down, but when playing, I think in chords and kind of let my muscle memory influence how I go from root to root.

The major scale ( and how it relates to the chords) is the only one I still spend significant time exploring any more, since it's the basis of all the other stuff. That said, exploring the harmonic minor was also a fascination for a while...

minor pentatonic is my fav