Acoustic and Electric Bassists:
• Improve your knowledge of the fingerboard
• Practice scales used in this book’s etudes in a comprehensive scale
section.
• Improve your intonation and time
• Develop your melodic interpretation and phrasing skills
• Learn to play with more flexible time by practicing rubato passages
• Strengthen your ear and learn to hear the five basic chord sounds
within the diatonic major scale: major, minor 7, dominant 7,
minor 7≤5, and major 7≥11
• Hear and use various diatonic modes and scales against the five
basic chords: Major, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian,
and Locrian
• Gain valuable experience on the use of melodic-minor scales over
minor 7≤5 chords

John Patitucci Biography
Foreword
PART I: 60 Melodic Etudes
PART II: 60 Melodic Scales