Tabbing out the major scales

[progrmr]

Question about tabbing out the scales -

Say I'm doing A Major and I want to tab it out. I did and it looked like this:

G|--------------------1--2------
D|-----------0--2--4------------
A|--0--2--4---------------------
E|------------------------------

I wanted to check my work, so I looked it up online and found this tab:

G|------------------------------
D|------------------4--6--7-----
A|--------4--5--7---------------
E|--5--7------------------------

Are both of these valid? If not why is one more "correct" than the other?

 

[BananaKing]

One is in first position and one is in 5th position.

Both are correct, just different fingering.

 

[progrmr]

gotcha - thx!

 

[Haruni]

Yeap, both correct positions. It is very helpful to learn the others too.

 

[EricF]

The A Major scale is: A-B-C#-D-E-F#-G#

It doesn't matter where on the neck you start or finish.

 

[Rudreax]

The A Major scale is: A-B-C#-D-E-F#-G#

It doesn't matter where on the neck you start or finish.

+1. You could play the entire scale on one string and still play it "correctly".

 

[Hookus]

I would recommend the Bass Grimoire if you are learning scales, it gives you all scales in different positions and modes, and links what scale/mode for different chord structures.

 

[progrmr]

I'll check that out! thanks!

and a shameless pimpin' of my blog with the work I did on this:
http://artofbass.blogspot.com