Two Octave Scales

[alexmoore10]

Hi there.

I am teaching scales at the moment and am struggling to find a nice fluid way to teach two octaves.

Every book I have looked at seems to be very dependent on either the E string or the G so if anyone has any suggestions for say a G major scale please could you let me know.

Thanks

[theunknowndude]

there is a way to do it...

http://www.studybass.com/tools/chord...-note-printer/

try using that

I should study that lot more often!

[alexmoore10]

Thanks for this

I might be being a bit slow though but can only find one octave examples on there, it's two octaves where I am falling down

Great site though!!

[SmittyG]

Here is a basic two-octave G major scale. You can modify this pattern to create other scales.

G ----------------------------------------7--9--11--12
D -----------------------------7--9--10---------------
A ---------------5--7--9--10--------------------------
E --3--5--7--8----------------------------------------

----i---i---r--p--i---i---r---p---i---r---p---i--i---r----p

I use slides to where I use the index finger twice in a row.

Hope that helps.

[Chickencha]

The above way is perfectly valid, but it can be done with fewer shifts. I also find index-to-index shifts to be a little awkward. The way I was taught do a two-octave G major scale went like this (with shifts as marked by the "S" at bottom):

G----------------------------9-11-12
D------------------7-9-10-12--------
A-----2-3-5-7-9-10------------------
E-3-5-------------------------------
           S        S

[SmittyG]

Good point. Notes is notes. You should always play around with different approaches to fingerings to find what is most comfortable for you.

[alexmoore10]

Thanks to everyone for all their help

[manbass]

"Bass Fretboard Basics" by MI has about a Bazillion 2 octave shapes, with and without slides and skips. Great manual.