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 :
So how to use chromatic scale? It’s commonly used as bridge notes and to evolve certain scale to be altered scale (the scale that different from its origin music scale). In addition, I’ve used the chromatic scale in 24-fingering pattern.
As a bridge, some notes of chromatic scale was added to connect “a note” to the “next note”. For instance, we have found it in converting minor pentatonic scale to become blues scale :
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Adding D# as a bridge —–> |
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Altered scale was used to modify the origin music scale, produce a different but unique harmonization. This could be done by adding flat (b) or sharp (#) notes, here are examples :
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Common Scale |
Altered Scale |
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Scale |
Composition |
Scale |
Composition |
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C Maj 7 |
1-3-5-7(C-E-G-B) |
C Maj 7+5 |
1-3-5#-7 (C-E-G#-B) |
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C Maj 7-5 |
1-3-5b-7 (C-E-Gb-B) | ||
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D sus 4 |
1-4-5-1 (D-G-A-D) |
D sus 4-5 |
1-4-5b-1 (D-G-Ab-D) |
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B min 7 |
1-3b-5-7b (B-D-F#-A) |
B min 7+5 |
1-3b-5#-7b (B-D-G-A) |
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E min sus 2 |
1-2-3b-7b (E-F#-G-D) |
E min sus 2-7 |
1-2-3b-6 (E-F#-G-Db) |
Have a nice practice… 
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