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Some Basic Things in Choosing a Bass Guitar

Bass guitar could be important between another instrument. As my teacher told me that bass player is a “car machine” of a band, he/she moves the song more listenable. The deep sound character gives the completeness of harmonization when it’s fused with another instrument. The bass tone provides a background sound that can capture the attention of listener. [Read more →]

Bass Guitar Lesson : Pentatonic Scale

Pentatonic scales are very common and oftenly used by musician in improvisation, it could easily mix with another harmonic instrument because it’s based on theory of “circle of fifth”. In definition, pentatonic scale contains five pitch per octave in contrast to an heptatonic (seven note) scale. Here are the two general patterns : [Read more →]

Bass Guitar Lesson : Chromatic Scale

What is chromatic scale? It seems that you just need to sound each fret on bass guitar neck. It doesn’t sound have harmonization and you’ll be confused to enjoy it, without unification of harmonic/melodic scale such as diatonic and pentatonic. Like I said before, chromatic scale is notes from each fret, here is example for C=do : [Read more →]

Ibanez K5, Ibanez GWB1005

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