Bass Scales - Gig Bag Series

by Mark Bridges

Book Overview

Covers 180 bass scales, in all 12 keys, with fingering suggestions and five different scale positions. Includes a handy fretboard diagram that illustrates each scale pattern. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082561595X
• ISBN13: 9780825615955
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 12.0"

Customer Reviews

This is a HIGHSIERRABASSPLAYER MUST HAVE!!!

If you are going to play serious bass you HAVE to practice your scales, period. This book is an absolute perfect tutor for EVERY scale and EVERY key, and, it includes not only all the major, minor, and church scales, but, everyone's fave pentatonics (majors and minors), jazz melodics, whole tones,and the all the variant blues scales. The book is in a narrow, incredibly sturdy spiral bound hard laminate that fits perfectly on your music stand. Any reviewer that doesn't give this a five-star must lip-sink or play air guitar. This is the book, bar none, for in-the-trenches practicing at my studio. Its taught me so much that I cannot express the value after all those hours. We need one for chord progressions, too! This is a must buy! Keep on practicing and jammin'!

The Gig Bag Book of Bass Scales

This book is exactly what it says it is...it is a very handy gig bag book to have if you play the bass. The scales are easy to read if you use tab or read music. It has all the different varieties of way the scales are played. It is just great...I highly recommend.

NOT useless, but VERY useful

Disregard the bad review - This book does not claim to be any more than a clear and concise book of bass scales. For that it is excellent. It's small size (thus the name Gig Bag) makes it easy to carry around. The scales are neatly presented in note form as well as tab (for those of use learning to read this is helpful). A good foundation book that any bassist can use.