Mastering Arpeggios's For Bass Players /// Scott's Bass Lessons

[@adambartone9193]

As an upright player who's played jazz for a few years, I realized that this lesson would have just completely sped up my learning of a million standards

[@alfonsowest]

Thank you Scott, I've been doing your continuous arpeggio exercise nearly 4 years now as a member of Scott's bass lessons, it's changed my life! WOW what it's done for my bass playing is above and beyond and it's still a monster, but I've got it, thank the maker! Everytime I pick up my bass it's my go to exercise.

[@Producelikeapro]

Wow! Fantastic stuff Scott!

[@Garagistemusic]

You're such a good communicator. I've been watching your vids for years now with great results. Thank you from Brooklyn.

[@ronlawrence5635]

I thought you are a great communicator, also, but “Arpeggios’s”? That’s just wrong. Love from Brooklyn, NY.

[@gerdbb]

Such a pleasure to dig into the "older" videos! These gems never loose their value... Greetz from Stuttgart, Germany!

[@user-pw8em3ec9w]

Learn to create cool bass lines: 17:52 (1 week) 29:32 24:00 Repeat 1-3 for min7, dom7 (and maybe m7b5) 37:32 (Autumn leaves) 56:40 (walking bass lines) 47:35 (rest of fretboard) 48:30 (more songs)

[@user-pw8em3ec9w]

What to think of 32:06

[@sigiriabeysekara8723]

26:11

[@brockadcock2735]

"when you first try this you might feel like your brain is bout to explode"... we love you Scott.

[@Ricardo96092]

Kind and great pro, thanks for your teachings Scott. At the moment, I'm studying with your modules the Scale of Fifths and it sure is not easy, last night I plugged my short scale Gibson Les Paul DC and my wife told me, ''wow, that was so cool and clean''. Thanks a lot for your teachings.

[@seanward2130]

Only been playing for about 10 months. So I feel like this is exactly what I need to deepen my understanding of arpeggios and exactly what I'm supposed to be doing as a bassist.

[@TheBalanced45]

I just did the first exercise for the past two weeks and am now moving on to the next one, giving it 15 minutes every day has had enormous improvements on my improv confidence and my songwriting! Great brain twisting exercises!

[@CesardelaPaz-os6wg]

Hey, I chanced upon this live feed out of pure luck! I'm a bass player from the Philippines, and the audio and video quality are just fine. I've been following Scott for many years now, but this is the very first instance I'm getting a live feed.

[@Nuevocomienzo7777]

Hi Scott, my name is German and I am from Hermiston Oregon who we get very excited to see you live.

[@victorbergeroux6558]

My brain is bleeding... it's maybe one of your best course i've been watching since there. I'm going to learn my fretboard at last ! Thank you so much scott for this lesson. best regards from France !

[@stramurto]

Thank you Scott, you're an extraordinary teacher and heart-warming motivator. I'm not an academy member, but I went through an AMAZING journey discovering my bass thanks to your youtube channel. As said, not a member, but I think I will become one asap, you really earned some of my money lol

[@michaelsaldana8266]

from Harlingen, TX A 20 years bassist. your breakdowns of how to improve my bass playing from being too staccato and being more relaxed with my hands to also improve fret note location when on stage is a great deal of help thanks and keep up the good

[@jamesmyers2571]

Jaymz. From Oregon 52 year old bass player fender jazz bass player. Rock on scott.

[@brandonthebass]

You could really extend this exercise into every kind of permutation including rhythms for your knowledge of chord tones. Especially if you wanted to move into odd meters (5 notes per chord, 4 + 3 notes per chord). This is so fantastic! Even further, you could move this into musical/melodic ideas and moving through chords melodically. Glad I stumbled upon this today! :D

[@aero7848]

How do you do permutation exercise?

[@handayoung232]

i dont learn much myself i just like your playing style and manor.inspired is the word im looking for.im a bass player,

[@maxponsetis1948]

that stuff is taking all it sens in jazz i knew the circles of fifths and forths but using that method is to be a pro in jazz hudge thanks for sharing that knowlege thats realy kind of you deserve the highest distinction the medal of kindness cheers from France

[@Nuevocomienzo7777]

I’m very excited to see you live i’ve been following you for quite a bit, but since I’m not very. Technology inclined I just subscribed to your channel. Sorry about that but I’m excited to learn from you.

[@itsamycamus]

GORGEOUS!!!! Love your vibe-sound-everything!!!!!!!!

[@13mortcinder]

Dear Scott, I mus tell you, this lesson is an eye opener, it really changed my playing an viewing of the fretboard. Thank you so much.

[@brianwilliams1588]

I like to think about it like this: Drums set the scene and draw an outline. Guitar and keyboard color the image. Bass is like the "inker" in comics, the guy that adds the weight to the lines and the shades and shadows, the parts that add depth to an image.

[@devinebass]

Love that!

[@harmonytreeproductionllc.3910]

Excellent lesson

[@devinebass]

🧡🧡🧡

[@koalanectar9382]

Easily one of the most important lessons on here. Great as always. So many bass players don't see the music as being chord changes, they just conceptualize things as being a "bass line". I did too, and then it just dawned on me one day: Oh, my bass lines consist of 90% chord tones.. I'm just playing chords one note at a time!

[@buckemptier]

The key is to write bass lines "across" the chords - I don't write music in chord changes, I write basslines that hit the right chord tones as the chords are played. The difference is you have a coherent, catchy melody that is independent of the chord progression, but does correspond with it.

[@seanward2130]

Scott what do you recommend for removing brain matter from the ceiling. Cuz this lesson blew my mind.

[@boyonbass]

Very informative/helpful. Thx for all u doo Scott! And don't think that ur examples of using these arps in ur playing arent helpful bc they are. Its soo cool to see ur examples of wut we can apply these arps to our playing. Its sooper impressive but I enjoy seeing wut u doo w these exercises! Ur sucha amazing player/instructor. We dig hearing u whipp! And wut Dutchess said in "the Aristocats(1970)", "U must learn ur scales and ur arpeggios..." Thx again brutha!

[@brandonmalone1893]

I love this exercise. I remember how hard it was years ago. Itll take you to the next level if you stick with it.

[@devinebass]

Absolutely dude! 🙌🏻

[@EscapingThralldom]

Thanks mr Scott for the excellent video. This stuff is absolute gold for bassists

[@Jorcorand]

This topic was great...thanks a lot Scott and the SBL crew

[@bass_backupvocals]

My face when I started watching😃 My face now😦 This is really an amazing stuff you're a genius scott🤘🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@user-xp5df4xn8q]

Yes it is making sense, many thanks Scott

[@pastorfloydrichards5043]

Floyd from Jamaica. Big up Scott

[@lewisgreenhowe528]

Loo here, from the Nations Capital DC, it makes sense to me. I really need to learn the fret board. I think u explaining things very well.

[@DHOWSR4DEEPDEPOT]

You explained thaat in a way turned on my own lightbulb too !!! Makes total sense too,

[@turismotheory]

This is some of the best advice I've ever heard

[@ronaldcrowder404]

I'm actually looking forward to working this out all over the fretboard! !

[@alejandroalmorato3262]

Im fan of you scott bass technic, thank you from Philipines

[@wrightlight]

So great. I am so happy I got the lifetime membership. Thanks Scott!

[@annivannihustle414]

Wow! This is a super exercise, I've been looking for it for months! Thank you very much! By the way, I have an idea to make this exercise for II-V-I chord progression around the circle of fifths.

[@JohnWilson-ru7xd]

Superb!! This has given me loads of stuff to work on!! Love it!!

[@terrybarnes5343]

first time I've seen a live stream some great ideas well done everyone, will be looking in again soon

[@MrJdnixon26]

i have been looking for a video like this thanks scott

[@Eric-wc9sr]

this video is worth so much

[@valrhomanferrer3531]

this is gold.

[@Oeg925]

Great lesson..full of nuggets..thx SBL

[@doblegcanusee9311]

I'm 54 years old and self-taught. Now going through these videos it only serves to expand my ability to play different things. For me now it's like "oh wow so that's why you can do this and that. I don't know if back when I was young if my immature mind would have seen these lessons as restricting what I wanted to play.

[@dennismease5466]

Sounds good today! Audio is good. Dennis in Houston Tx

[@bntaft5133]

Thank you, Scott.

[@enc1ner]

Very useful exercise! Gonna try this over a few months. Visualizing patterns - as you mentioned, as oppose to thinking chord notes - seem like a good tool to make it easier to find the nearest note in the next chord. It should be a matter of layering patterns over each other and see which note is the nearest. One advantage of thinking the notes, however, should be that this exercise also becomes an exercise to find the notes on the fretboard. Do you have any thoughts about the downside of thinking patterns versus to thinking in notes?

[@Serratasrusrex]

Dude..."To the third!" Thats z great

[@charlieg5088]

most helpful video yet Thank you Scott

[@Brennon0611]

Absolutely YES !!!

[@Brennon0611]

Hey Scott it’s a great sound love the sound of the bass too

[@363HECTOR]

Excelent lesson, excelent exercize, tumbs up Scott, big follower on Venezuela!!

[@saberashabnam]

Learned so much from you! 😍😍

[@keithspinks]

It was good. Like the format

[@terrybarnes5343]

Hi Scott Terry here from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire in the north of England, the audio is fine

[@michaelhart5213]

Sound quality is excellent!

[@richardcotton9126]

First part of this lesson was very helpful for me. It gave me a good understanding of the major arpeggios and the circle of fifths. From that, I feel like I can develop some good exercises, and use the arpeggios together to create basslines. However after the first part, he lost me. Scott himself looked confused as he was trying to explain the 'continuous arpeggio'. I had to just stop the lesson around the 46' mark. Scott is by far my favorite online bass teacher and I will have to come back to this lesson.

[@jimmytheeJTW]

awesome lesson. like the tone and effects too..

[@charlieschultz4446]

" thumbs - up " for all the staff , with the in put :)

[@jamesrandt7697]

Great lesson Scott. Keep it up Yeppe

[@robertkosick3925]

My left hand is limited after carpal tunnel and ulnar cubital release. Left arm . My use of it is limited 2 months after, it is returning but slowly. I'm 54 and been playing bass 29 years by ear and inprov, now teaching myself theory. I am frustrated but all in. Any advice about short cuts still being able to play fretless in tune???

[@jasoncarlson4769]

8 months late. Play your fretted bass. Practice fretting on top of frets. That will put your fingers in the correct spot to play fretless. Then transfer over to your fretless bass

[@francescobelsito2]

Thank you from Italy

[@steveharding5807]

Perfect audio Scott Manchester

[@pre-64winfordguy65]

Thanks so much - from Mt. Holly NC

[@devinebass]

Thanks for watchin! 🤘🏻

[@BOnEhEAdD]

Now this is how you know Scott is in the big leagues - his guitar player plays chords 90 % of the time :o

[@ErixSamson]

Simply GREAT lesson!!! It might have helped a bit if you used a backing track for Autumn Leaves, so that we can hear the impact the different patterns you show us (continuous arpeggios, 3rd to 3rd, etc.). Anyway, we can still do that by ourselves as homework :-) Thanks again for these very helpful lessons.

[@jeffs.1999]

Great stuff! So much to to learn, but so rewarding to see the improvements unfold before my eyes ( at 55 Y/O

[@ronaldcrowder404]

This will take care of me the rest of my life !! But I love it !!

[@GSA_Drums]

Greets from NRW in Germany :)

[@noelsoto2613]

Yeah Juan here from NJ US sounds good go for it!!

[@boyonbass]

dUg- Montesano, Washington/USA The audio sounds great! Including ur PBass... Bless U!

[@vincepacione3666]

"We are preprogrammed to work roots up, arpeggios up and down".... Dude, I'm only playing ever doing this. I'm mentally a bass baby after playing for so many years 🤯🤯🤯

[@giannibiancocircus]

My fav things: wonderful! (Italy)

[@juniorgraham1951]

Yes

[@cocovasquez1]

Texas, Love your vids

[@meatyout]

Around 42:50: online question "How do we know which is the lowest note?". Scott answers that there's no "fast track" to it and that you have to write down the notes of the arpeggios and then find them below the root note. That's not consistent with what he says earlier in the video: "I'm not thinking notes but intervals" (or sth along those lines). Actually, if you can visualise your 7th, 5th, 3rd BELOW the root note as well as above, you can do it without knowing the notes. For example: you want to play a a C minor arpeggio from the lowest note (C on the A string / 3rd fret), after a time, you'll know that your lowest note possible is the 5th below (E string / 3rd fret), then your minor 7th either on the E string / 6th fret or A string / 1st fret, etc. and you'll remember the "shapes". Not really a "fast track" either but easier IMHO. Good vid otherwise.

[@andrewsorensen444]

When learning all your scales and arpeggios you want to learn the note names because it is helpful for reading music and learning the fretboard. You want to think of the arpeggios in intervals as well because it's easier to think of the notes as numbers while you are actually playing a tune.

[@leonjohnson7341]

Ypha am getting it and I'm so new u make it so very easy thanks

[@c2running]

i LOVE YOU SCOTT

[@MultiOutdoorman]

The way i try and remember is that C is the do-a-deer tune and wedding bells tune descending. Then i try and think of ... C, F(for fifths) then i think of the BEEGEE's (Bead Gee's) B flats first, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat ....then repeated as non flats BEADG finishing in C again. So we get .... C,F BbEbAbDbGb then BEADG then C again. Just another way of sharing how i try and understand some of the terminology... lol

[@이한수-h9c]

Thanks for a great lesson.

[@이한수-h9c]

베이스는 코드를 치는 악기이지만, 다른 악기들 처럼 화음을 연주하는 것이 아니라 코드를 outline하는 악기라고 함. 연습법 5프렛 안에서 연습/하행 5도로 7th코드를 치기 1. 코드마다 4개의 음을 치되, 다음 코드의 가장 가까운 구성음으로 시작하기 2. 코드마다 가장 낮은 구성음부터 높은 구성음까지 올라갔다가 내려오기 3. 4개음을 치면서 다음 코드의 가장 가까운 음을 치되, 상행, 하행을 지키면서 치기 그리고 이것을 메이져, 마이너, 도미넌트 다 해야 함. (마이너 플랫 파이브는 좀 잘 되면 하라는 듯) 다음은 그 다음5프랫에서, 또 그 다음 5프랫에서 연습하기. 손가락 놀리는 연습만 하는 것보다 프렛보드에 대한 이해도가 높아지고, 다양한 패턴을 알게 되기 때문에 베이스라인을 짜는 데에 굉장한 도움을 준다고 함. (악기마다 특성이 있는데, 키보드나 다른 악기에 비해 pattern-friendly한 악기라고 함) Autumm leaves 4개씩 상행, 하행 Cm7 F7 Bbmaj7 Ebmaj7 Am5b7 D7 Gm7 G7 +루트에서 루트로 대신 3도에서 3도로 가는 아이디어도 있음

[@charlieschultz4446]

looking in from Sydney Australia , take care & " ava nice day " ( M8 )

[@alexandredinkelmann595]

amazing class!!

[@maartengaander6388]

Audio is perfect

[@Anddrew914]

Leaving myself bookmarks. @28:14 - Playthrough of M7 arpeggios moving up in 4ths. @45:28 - Autumn Leaves infinite arpeggios playthrough

[@LH-zv2zq]

Listening in from Hawaii.

[@gtech12bass]

Awesome lesson Scott...love the continuous arpeggio exercise!!! How would you apply that to All Blues given that it's written in 6/8?

[@stevepethel6843]

Beautiful music...

[@chrissietankersley8746]

Howdy from Chrissie N in Tennessee!

[@greerlacy5953]

Cool , sound's good!

[@VibraphoneRecordsLtd]

hy folks, great exercise .what I don't get 🙈 is if the choice of running the 4 notes arpeggios starting from the nearest notes from next cycle of 5th arpeggios has a specific order or not IE 5/3/1/7 [like when you move from the C major 7th 4 notes arp to the F major 7th arp] or 3/1/5/7 [when you move from the F major arp to the B flat major ] can anyone help? Thanks 🙏

[@charlieschultz4446]

as a beginner , should ' one ' start with cords or " begin " with arpeggios , please

[@devinebass]

Start with your triads! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXm2iqBuipWIjrM&pp=ygUKU0JMIHRyaWFkcw%3D%3D

[@sifuuk6876]

Yes Scott! first time live viewer from the UK, total noob player (I got the groove though). which of your videos would you recommend for learning the major scales and getting used to mixing them up? cheers, Set.

[@robertkosick3925]

Oh I am from now on playing short scale currently an Ibenez micro 5.

[@rogerfelder-bz4xy]

Roger from Az.USA

[@illesbass545]

Audio sounds good Texas usa

[@eaglethirdeye]

Am I the only one having trouble with the "next nearest note" exercise? When he gets to the F major arpeggio and he stops on the E, he says the next nearest note in the next arpeggio is D but wouldn't it be F?

[@jordancampbell3706]

I noticed the same thing...but he's always going to the next note *in the same direction* as the previous arpeggio. So even though F is closer to E than D is, the arpeggio is going down so he goes to the next closest note that is lower - in this case, the D.

[@eaglethirdeye]

Ahh, now it makes sense! I misunderstood the exercise (obviously). I thought the goal was to alternate directions with EACH arpeggio. But he's actually going as high or as low as he can go on the fret board without going outside the 5th fret regardless of what arpeggio he's on at that time. Blah I don't know why I didn't catch that! But I appreciate you clarifying that for me, sir. And keep up the awesome work, Scott! You're a phenomenal instructor! Certainly the best I've come across.

[@lextual]

Seriously. When Scott does the notes on the "next nearest note" exercise, is there ANY reason why he couldn't say the notes that were to be played other than that I need to rewind over and over at 50% speed to get those notes?!

[@jurepero6163]

lextual Seriously what a jerk, giving you probably the most important lesson on bass for free and demonstrating it on the bass. What has this world come to, terrible.

[@stramurto]

@@lextual what an ass. He gave you this fabulous lesson FOR FREE and you're even complaining. come on.

[@MB-pu4jj]

SUPERB MASTER! FROM U.K