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

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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