Scales are good for muscle tone and sight-reading. DO NOT LOOK AT YOUR HANDS!!! This is really difficult at first, but just remember that blind people play instruments all the time. What you really want to learn is music theory, unless, of course, you have the ear of a Paul McCartney. If so, never mind. You’re doing just fine. Otherwise, music theory will explain a lot and you won’t be learning stuff merely by rote. I had a number of years in piano, violin and classical guitar, which I foolishly thought would make taking up the bass pretty easy. Oh, nonononono. I was sorely lacking in theory which I had to start to learn in order to do anything with the bass.
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