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Mode practice. Hi, I'm currently trying to broaden my knowledge of the fretboard and how to move around it. So I've been learning modes. I can play each one-octave mode anywhere on the fretboard, some two-octave patterns, and can improvise a line within the first position of each mode fairly well. One exercise I do it come up with a little bassline, then play it in each mode. That started out as a frustrating exercise but has started to become a little more fun as I can do it a little faster now. What kinds of exercises do you recommend for helping to memorize all these patterns? |
Chord tone arpeggios, of course :sly: But seriously, what you are doing now is great, why not go a step bigger and learn songs and then transpose them into different keys |
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you can also take a look here http://www.ibass-school.com/practising_scales that means for example , in G major scale position 1 :you begin with the G note on the 4th string and end with the C note on the 1st string then , position 2 , begin with A note on the 4th string and end with the D note on the 1st string and so when you have well memorized the notes in all position , play a rhythm on a beatbox and try improvisation on G key ! |
These are all good suggestions, I will look farther into them. The exercises in Febs post, I pretty much do already anyway, so I will just continue to do those. I actually play through all the modes starting on the root in each position instead of the way he explained in the post so I do that one, just differently. |
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