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My bass cheat sheet

#121
Comparing patterns - don't have time to get into this right now, however, yes, those patterns do look a little different than what I'm used to seeing. Doing this from memory - pattern 4 looks like the major scale pattern I'm used to seeing. And then if you hook pattern 4 to pattern 5 they start to flow together - pattern 5 hooks up with pattern 1, etc.

It's good stuff, you just have to get the patterns into an order you recognize.

Your question about 5 patterns or 7 patterns. Using the patterns to go up the neck - two of the patterns are so much like 2 other patterns people decided years ago to just use five of the seven. There are 7 because we have 7 modes, I'm not sure, from memory, what two mode patterns get left out.
 
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lamarjones said:
I believe this is the same one, and all the other links seem to be failing. Gotta keep this thing alive!

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hum ... not easy to read and since they only span on 4 frets, they miss some scale degree here and there ... alors they aren't disposed in a logical way like pattern 1 should be in root position ... pattern 2 start on the second degree but it isn,t the case
 
#128
lord knows I utilized many similar charts in my day
a beginner simply doesn't know enough to work it out themselves
and will need to look it up somewhere.

but the exercise of working out for your self will fix those patterns into your memory and you won't need such charts after that.
not saying it's bad , just that working it all out for ones self is better.
 
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mambo4 said:
lord knows I utilized many similar charts in my day
a beginner simply doesn't know enough to work it out themselves
and will need to look it up somewhere.

but the exercise of working out for your self will fix those patterns into your memory and you won't need such charts after that.
not saying it's bad , just that working it all out for ones self is better.
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Agreed. Nothing wrong with using charts, but learning the underlying patterns and construction is the key.

Perfect 5th? Always the same fret, one string down or up one string and two frets. You can easily work out the perfect 4th from that although once you internalize that it's always one string up or down one string and two frets it'll help make it faster. Oh, and wouldn't you know it, but they're inverses of each other. That helps to drill in that the bass is tuned in 4ths and that a 4th up is a 5th down. That's a key concept right there.

Or what about how going up a string and down 3 frets (i.e. pinky to index finger in one finger per fret) is a whole step? So now when I'm playing that 5th on my pinky and I need to move up to the 6th I don't have to worry about being out of my normal position because I know how to find it without thinking about it.

The more you play triads the faster you learn that a major 3rd is either up a string and down a fret or up three frets (i.e. index to pinky) and a minor triad is up a string and down two frets (because it's minor and thus a half step flat). And once you start thinking in those terms you start to understand better just what intervals/scale degrees the scales and arpeggios are made of, a huge benefit when you start getting into mode and chord construction. And even better further cement the "a fret is a half step" idea into your head.

The sooner you start learning to think in terms of intervals the better. You won't need a chart because the chart would just be holding you back. You don't hear charts, you hear intervals.

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I still downloaded a copy. ;)
 

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