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that's brilliant. yes i found this one aswell but i didn't know it would apply to bass aswell. Narud, thanks again for your advice, its great to know that someone you have never met would help you out like this, it gives me a belief in the human race that you can easily forget when you meet...

thats brilliant. i cant seem to find a howard roberts bass book though. where can i find a bass diagram of this CAGED system then? thanks so much for your help

so are the 5 patterns of CAGED all in the key of c? because i know the patterns of the c major scale all the way up the neck. or does it actually cover all the keys of CAGE and D all in the 5 patterns?

im not sure but i think thats what its referring to because these "scale forms" have the same fingering for every key. either way id like to know more about this caged concept because ive never heard of it before. can you direct me to any books or websites that will teach me the best way to...

maybe i should have explained myself a bit better; i know my scales, arpeggios and modes in every key along with chords and double stops. but in this book "music reading for bass" by the musicians institute, in chapter 9 it refers to scales forms for reading. there are 6 of them for four...

by the musicians institute. i started to study this book as i really want to be able to sight read things down quickly, im sure its a great skill to have. it has been going really well and ive been storming through the ryhthms and "reading within a key" sections where it shows you a...

thats great advice. it would have helped me if there was a page in the book with the information you just gave me. so thankyou very much,thats invaluable information to me! ste

i think maybe there is a knowlege of the fretboard im missing because ive been waching other players and they can put evrything in one position,whether its a root,3rd,5th,or whatever.

so ive ben through all the exercisees and im pretty much fine with them, BUT when i go to the standards at the back of the book,im struggling to connect my scales and arpeggios e.g connecting a cmaj7 to an fm7. going from the 5th of cmaj7 i want to connect it to the 3rd of fm7 and thats...

hey listen up. dont you remember that you play bass because you ENJOY it? this is what you need to do; find a tune, in 4/4 with a piss easy bassline,and i mean easy, you could train a monkey to play this line,say a folk line. turn up the bass on your hi fi and ENJOY playing this...

"the best bassplayers are the ones that play not for themselves,but for the music" if you have a great unique style it will still shine through even better when your not forcing it to