Working on learning some scales

[Limelight]

What I know:

Pentatonic
Major
Minor
Mixolydian

I'd love to learn some more scales, or other practicing riffs,(i.e. the bass walkdown in Xanadu.)

[dman_113]

I like this book http://www.amazon.com/Bass-Grimoire-.../dp/0825821819

[BryanM]

I actually really like the guitar grimoire series, rather than the bass one. For 4-string, you can just abridge the scales shown, but they have more than just the standard ones (I have the bass grimoire, scales and modes guitar, and chords and voicings for guitar). I think it's great to have the charts all the way to the high E string because it's easy as a quick reference for if you wanna play more than 4 strings.

[Beast]

You might want to learn the theory behind those scales as well. If you know all that good stuff already, go with the grimoire series.

[dhemstra]

Learn some modes!

http://wheatsbassbook.org/chapter_se...hp?chapter=010

[hunta]

Originally Posted by dhemstra

Learn some modes!

http://wheatsbassbook.org/chapter_se...hp?chapter=010

+1 nice link.

[Limelight]

nevermind, forget this post...

[Matthew Bryson]

Originally Posted by Limelight

Some theaory behind them would be nice.

1234567 = Ionian
2345671 = Dorian
3456712 = Phrygian
4567123 = Lydian
5671234 = Mixolydian
6712345 = Aeolian
7123456 = Locrian

**BUT I don't really think that this is how you should think about the modes.
I believe that each mode should be thought of as it's own unique scale and you should be familiar with the intervals of each scale/mode.

[Matthew Bryson]

For what it's worth - I'd recomend spending more time learning about chords / chord progression and how to harmonize the major scale using arpagios. IMO - much more usefull than memorizing modes.

When you play your majors and minors, do you do them all the way up and down your instruments range? (as in "Pac Man's sure fire scale primer" from the sticky thread?)

[hunta]

Originally Posted by Matthew Bryson

For what it's worth - I'd recomend spending more time learning about chords / chord progression and how to harmonize the major scale using arpagios. IMO - much more usefull than memorizing modes.

When you play your majors and minors, do you do them all the way up and down your instruments range? (as in "Pac Man's sure fire scale primer" from the sticky thread?)

Yea, you need to learn the chord theory or major modes are far less useful. When I first learned modes like 12 or 13 years ago, I had no clue about diatonic chord functions or how that related to modes. I would play stuff in Locrian or whatever because I thought it sounded cool, but I didn't know squat about the theory. The major modes are simply a reflection of the chords in a given key. You can memorize all the modes, but if you don't understand that Dorian has a major 6th because it's built off the ii chord, you can't really use them to their full potential.

[Seussbass]

Originally Posted by dhemstra

http://wheatsbassbook.org/chapter_se...hp?chapter=010

This is a great resource, thanks for posting this!