WHAT’S A HALF-STEP BETWEEN FRIENDS?
ey there, bass players! As we explore various patterns and shapes on the fretboard, we may find ourselves sticking to safe-sounding notes. That’s why we learn octaves, chord shapes, and pentatonic scales. They provide us with a clear-cut road map of consonance: Thirds, fifths, major sixths, minor sevenths, and so on. These notes tend to be considered correct by theory standards and help us color between the lines—but what if we’d like to add a dash of hot sauce to our burrito, a sprinkle of malt vinegar to our fries, or a drizzle of chili oil atop our
