This lick will put you shifting technique and fluidity to the test. Based over a C-minor chord, it's filled with challenging arpeggios and chromatic approach notes. As always, learn it at your own tempo and build up from there. See you in the shed! | ScottsBassLessons.com

Here's a great exercise to help you memorize the location of the notes in the fretboard. As you can see, you ascend by playing the same note once on every string, and descend on the next note by using the "Circle of Fourths". The order would be the following: C - F - Bb - Eb - Ab - Db - Gb/F# - B - E - A - D - G. Tab & notation available in the comments below 👇 | ScottsBassLessons.com

How can you master the bass fretboard in 21 weeks instead of years? I wondered the same thing. Because our favorite bassists mostly took years, and all had their own ways of approaching it. But I developed a system to shorten the learning curve. If that's setting off your "too-good-to-be-true" detector, allow me to explain: Most of us didn't approach the fretboard *systematically*: By deconstructing the fretboard, you can apply *systems* instead of treating each pattern or shape in isolation. Wh