Bass music theory is what you must know to improvise with jazz chords and scales. As one of the key building blocks of learning the bass and music, music theory is a subject that you will need to delve into serious at some point in order to become the type of player that can solo and improvise of all kinds of chords changes with jazz and any other style of music as well.

For example, since generally more than three tones are used to construct jazz chords due to the extra chordal notes which are inherent to the nature of the jazz style, you will need know that scales come in many names and alterations. This means that there is a great deal of music theory to be understood in regards to improvising with them. Beginners will never have a clue as to what to do at all unless they can just rely on their “ear” for playing, because there is going to be a lot of music theory to learn and they might as well get down to the business of learning right away instead of waiting for some easy way. However, more importantly it is the intermediate and advance player who must get beyond the limited knowledge of theory, the traditional concepts and the memorized applications that have no underlying logical explanation to them.

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