Originally published June 7, 2013, lightly edited for clarity.
Music is a language. It has its own vocabulary, its own grammar, and its own way of communicating meaning — even if the meaning is purely emotional. What is Music? A good question, to be sure. If you’re going to play it, you ought to know what it is, Right? I’m not sure if enough musicians, even good ones, really give this the attention that it deserves. I think great thanks and appreciation should go out to Victor Wooten for enlightening many people to the fact and basic truth that music is a language. Far too many musicians and students of music still do not treat it like one. The following video discusses the study of scales and how it relates to this concept. Music theory is one of the fundamentals I teach. If you want to explore this idea in your own playing, online bass lessons via Zoom are available.
