You Can Never Escape Math Class: The Fretboard as a Grid
Another excerpt from “How Do I Bass?”. See also this post about how the fretboard is not a grid. In the actual book this chapter will come before that one. Before I understood anything about music theory, I learned the bass by finding visual patterns. And even now that I understand a fair amount, I still find myself resorting to and using these patterns, because they’re useful. Unlike a guitar, which has a major 3rd between the G and B strings, all the intervals on the bass a