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Scales are important. Not only will they help build strength and independence in your fingers, but they will help train your ears to some common sounds as well. You will use them in bass line construction, improvisation, and song writing.

Pre-scale

Before learning some real scales, here is a good first step. These are just some finger exercises. They are written in tablature form, and the numbers above indicate what fingers your should use.

First just try going up and down using all 4 fingers on the first string

Finger exercise tablature

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Then try going up on both the 2nd and 1st string, and then coming back down.

Finger exercise tablature

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Then try going up on all 4 strings, and back down.

Finger exercise tablature

Finger exercise tablature

 

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