165-Why learning scales is NOT the answer to knowing your fretboard

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🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Finally, a video that dispels some of the myths about achieving bass guitar fretboard mastery - like having to learn ALL of the notes in the Hungarian minor scale! In this episode, Scott and Ian reveal how they solved their fretboard woes, their newfound love for headless basses, and the simple steps you can take to elevate your own bass playing.

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0:00.0	Um, hey, I've got, I mean, Divine, check this out.
0:09.7	Check that out.
0:10.9	Oh!
0:12.9	That's cool, right?
0:14.3	I don't think you've seen this yet.
0:16.6	I know.
0:17.9	Is it the lull?
0:19.8	Yes, it is.
0:38.3	I thought, have you not got another five lull as well? So I did, and it was like active, and there was just some things about it that I was like, ooh, if I had it to do all over again. So I traded it in. Oh, so you gave Spencer back. Yeah. And he gave to Spencer. Yeah. And then we built this.
0:39.3	And it's so cool. It kind of shows up almost like white on the screen, but it's like a transparent surf green.
0:46.2	Oh, he's a surf green.
0:47.6	Yeah.
0:47.9	And you can kind of see the grain through it, right?
0:50.6	And how about, I got a word for you, dude.
0:53.4	Have you ever heard of Spencer texted me and said, you will not believe the chittoyance of this fingerboard.
1:01.3	And I said, oh, yeah.
1:03.5	I said, excuse me, what?
1:06.4	Did he write that or say it?
1:08.7	He wrote it.
1:10.1	And I was like, it's C-H-A.
1:12.6	I had to look like a straight to Google.
1:14.9	Like a grade schooler, I was like, shut, ho.
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