A fun and creative way to practice a scale

scale

If you know a scale like this, you know it well.

Hint: It involves the diatonic cycle… Ready?

Free TABS and diagrams for you here: https://righton.arisbassblog.com/courses/microbass

Look for lesson #A4.

A fun and creative way to practice a scale

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A fun and creative ways to practice the scale, installment #2!

Play the scale one time to get yourself dialed in and then break it down into its diatonic triads and step by step play the diatonic triads. [ 🎢 Ari plays the diatonic triads 🎢 ]

You can say the scale degrees: 1 – 3 – 5 – 2 – 4 – 6 – 3 – 5 – 7 – 4 – 6 – 8 – 5 – 7 – 2 – 6 – 1 – 3 – 7 – 2 – 4 -1 – 3 – 5. You can play one up and the next one down. [ 🎢 Ari plays one up and one down 🎢 ]

It’s pretty or you can play them all down [ 🎢 Ari plays them all down 🎢 ]

You can play with the click as triplets or what’s even funner is if you play 16th notes two-e-and-a-go-e-and-a…
[ 🎢 Ari plays as 16th notes triplets 🎢 ]

Bb Lydian – Practice Trick

A practice trick that makes bass scales practice… practical!

We use Bb lydian as our example scale, but the concept works for all scales.

Practice with me…

Free TABS and diagrams for you here: https://righton.arisbassblog.com/courses/microbass

Look for lesson #A5.


Bb Lydian – Practice Trick

Video Transcript

One minute scalar studies with Ari, installment 3.

Groups of twos: Take a scale Bb lydian
[🎡🎡🎡 Ari plays scale 🎡🎡🎡]

and group two and two together
[🎡🎡🎡 Ari plays scale in groups of two 🎡🎡🎡]

Now play with the phrasing – long, short right, I could turn that around [🎡🎡🎡 Ari plays scale w long-short phrasing 🎡🎡🎡]

I could swing it
[🎡🎡🎡 Ari plays scale – swinging it 🎡🎡🎡]

Groups of twos.