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Are you caught in the fretboard trap?
Most bass players don’t struggle on the fretboard because they lack talent, discipline, or musical ability.
In fact, many practice regularly, learn scales and patterns, and put the work in — yet still feel unsure the moment the music moves beyond familiar positions. You might know what you want to play, but not fully trust where your hands will land.
If this sounds like you, you're not alone.
It's something I’ve seen again and again — both in my own playing, and across thousands of bass players I’ve taught over the years.
I call this struggle...
FRETBOARD
The trouble is, patterns and shapes play an important role when you’re first learning the bass. They give you something solid to work with — a way to start playing music.
But eventually, they become both your comfort zone and your limitation.
You get fluent inside a few familiar shapes… but when the music asks you to move beyond them, confidence drops. You get trapped in one particular area of the fretboard, and you default to what you know.
How Traditional Fretboard Learning Breaks Down
Most fretboard teaching breaks the neck into pieces — shapes, boxes, positions, isolated patterns — and asks you to memorise them one at a time.
At first, this feels like progress. You recognise shapes. You learn where notes live in theory. But when the music changes key, jumps register, or moves unpredictably, that confidence often disappears.
That’s because memorisation isn’t the same as understanding.
Instead of learning how the fretboard actually works as a whole, you’re left trying to stitch together disconnected ideas in real time — which leads to hesitation, second-guessing, and a feeling that you’re always one step behind the music.
It’s not a lack of effort.
It’s a lack of connection.
Why Great Bass Players Don’t Hesitate
When you watch your favourite bass players, what likely stands out isn’t their speed or the complexity — it’s their confidence, attitude, expression.
They move through the fretboard without hesitation, or second-guessing. When the music shifts, they don’t pause to search for the “right shape.”
That kind of fluency comes from understanding how the fretboard actually works — not just what to play, but how everything connects.
The truth is, they didn’t all learn the fretboard the same way.
But they did arrive at the same result: clarity.
The question I became obsessed with was how to make that clarity understandable, teachable, and repeatable — without requiring endless hours of practice.
The Source Code of The Bass Fretboard
Over years of teaching, I noticed something consistent.
Most bass players weren’t lacking information — they were overwhelmed by it. They were learning scales, arpeggios, and patterns in isolation, without a clear way to see how it all connected.
I wasn’t looking for more material.
I was looking for a way to organise what was already there.
That’s when I revisited an age-old harmonic concept I’d learned years earlier — one that quietly sits underneath everything we play on the bass.
When I viewed the fretboard through that lens, something became obvious. Every scale, arpeggio, interval, and line wasn’t a separate idea at all — it was a variation of the same underlying relationships, repeated across the neck.
The fretboard isn’t a collection of patterns to memorise — it’s a single, connected map.
Once you understand those relationships, scales, arpeggios, intervals, and harmony become different views of the same structure.
That insight became the foundation for everything I teach about the fretboard — and the framework behind the Fretboard Accelerator.
This framework helps you understand the fretboard as a connected system — with a clear way to practice it, step by step, musically, and without guesswork.
Rather than treating notes, scales, and positions as separate ideas, the program shows how intervals, scales, and harmony relate across the entire neck.
Everything is taught through a clear progression that helps those relationships connect — so movement starts to feel natural instead of uncertain.
This isn’t about adding more material or memorising more patterns.
It’s about developing a clear mental map of the fretboard — one that holds up when the music moves, the key changes, or you’re pushed outside familiar territory.
Everything You're Getting Inside The Fretboard Accelerator
A clear, step-by-step path
The program is organised across 16 modules, so you always know what to work on next — no guesswork, no jumping around.
Each lesson builds on the last, helping you make steady progress without feeling overwhelmed.
A simple framework that helps everything connect
The program is built on a master pattern framework designed to help you organise what you already know.
You’ll see how scales, arpeggios, and harmony relate — so the fretboard starts to make sense as a connected whole.
Designed for efficient practice
Structured to deliver meaningful progress without marathon practice sessions — even if you’re working with around 30 minutes a day.
In-depth video lessons
Get access to over 20 hours of detailed video lessons that break down each concept clearly and practically.
Everything is taught in a way that’s easy to follow and apply in your own playing.
Any style, any level
The program meets you where you are — helping beginners build a clear foundation, while giving more experienced players a better way to connect and organise what they already know.
Printable lesson workbooks
Get downloadable PDF workbooks for every exercise and musical example. A simple supporting resource to reinforce what you’re learning in each lesson.
The full printed spiral-bound course-book is also available.
Once the fretboard starts to make sense as a connected system, your movement becomes far more fluid and natural.
The Triadic Harmony Concept
The Fretboard Accelerator helps organise the fretboard by focusing on how triadic harmony — one of the most fundamental building blocks in music — repeats across the neck.
Triads form the core of chords and harmony. When you start to see how triads are laid out on the bass, consistent interval relationships emerge — relationships that repeat in predictable ways across strings and positions.
Inside the program, this is broken down into four core “master patterns” — not as shapes to memorise, but as reference points that help organise everything you already play.
Viewing the fretboard through this lens helps connect notes, positions, scales, and arpeggios that might otherwise feel unrelated. Patterns stop being isolated fingerings and begin to make sense as part of a larger system.
The Fretboard Accelerator then breaks these ideas down into clear, step-by-step exercises — helping you develop a reliable mental map of the fretboard and greater control as you move around the neck.
“This course is bringing my playing skills to a point I never thought I had. I have a teacher that I study with once a week and he even noticed a difference. I am glad I decided to join this class.”
– Matthew T
This Course in 2 mins
Inside The Fretboard Accelerator Curriculum
(Major) Root Position Fretboard Matrix
- Video 1: Module 1 Introduction
- Video 2: What is the Cycle of 5ths?
- Video 3: Major Triad / Root Position / Shape 1
- Video 4: Major Triad / Root Position / Shape 2
- Video 5: Major Triad / Root Position / Shape 3
- Video 6: Combining Shapes / Position 1
- Video 7: Combining Shapes / Position 2
- Video 8: Combining Shapes / Position 3
- Video 9: Module 1 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
(Major) 1st Inversion Fretboard Matrix
- Video 1: Module 2 Introduction
- Video 2: What are Triad Inversions?
- Video 3: Major Triad / 1st Inversion / Shape 1
- Video 4: Major Triad / 1st Inversion / Shape 2
- Video 5: Major Triad / 1st Inversion / Shape 3
- Video 6: Combining Shapes / Position 1
- Video 7: Combining Shapes / Position 2
- Video 8: Combining Shapes / Position 3
- Video 9: Module 2 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
(Major) 2nd Inversion Fretboard Matrix
- Video 1: Module 3 Introduction
- Video 2: 2nd Inversion Checkup
- Video 3: Major Triad / 2nd inversion / Shape 1
- Video 4: Major Triad / 2nd inversion / Shape 2
- Video 5: Major Triad / 2nd inversion / Shape 3
- Video 6: Combining Shapes / Position 1
- Video 7: Combining Shapes / Position 2
- Video 8: Combining Shapes / Position 3
- Video 9: Module 3 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
(Major) Continuous Movement System
- Video 1: Module 4 Introduction
- Video 2: Major Triad Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 1
- Video 3: Major Triad Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 2
- Video 4: Major Triad Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 3
- Video 5: Module 4 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
Q&A with Scott Devine
A previously recorded seminar with Scott Devine, where Fretboard Accelerator students get their questions answered.
(Minor) Root Position Fretboard Matrix
- Video 1: Module 5 Introduction
- Video 2: Minor Triad Checkup
- Video 3: Minor Triad / Root inversion / Shape 1
- Video 4: Minor Triad / Root inversion / Shape 2
- Video 5: Minor Triad / Root inversion / Shape 3
- Video 6: Combining Shapes / Position 1
- Video 7: Combining Shapes / Position 2
- Video 8: Combining Shapes / Position 3
- Video 9: Module 5 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
(Minor) 1st Inversion Fretboard Matrix
- Video 1: Module 6 Introduction
- Video 2: 1st Inversion Minor Triads
- Video 3: Minor Triad / 1st inversion / Shape 1
- Video 4: Minor Triad / 1st inversion / Shape 2
- Video 5: Minor Triad / 1st inversion / Shape 3
- Video 6: Combining shapes / Position 1
- Video 7: Combining shapes / Position 2
- Video 8: Combining shapes / Position 3
- Video 9: Module 6 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
(Minor) 2nd Inversion Fretboard Matrix
- Video 1: Module 7 Introduction
- Video 2: 2nd Inversion Minor Check-Up
- Video 3: Minor Triad / 2nd inversion / Shape 1
- Video 4: Minor Triad / 2nd inversion / Shape 2
- Video 5: Minor Triad / 2nd inversion / Shape 3
- Video 6: Combining shapes / Position 1
- Video 7: Combining shapes / Position 2
- Video 8: Combining shapes / Position 3
- Video 9: Module 7 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
(Minor) Continuous Movement System
- Video 1: Module 8 Introduction
- Video 2: Minor Triad Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 1
- Video 3: Minor Triad Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 2
- Video 4: Minor Triad Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 3
- Video 5: Module 8 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
Q&A with Scott Devine
A previously recorded seminar with Scott Devine, where Fretboard Accelerator students get their questions answered.
Mixing Major and Minor
- Video 1: Module 9 Introduction
- Video 2: What is a I vi ii V Chord Progression?
- Video 3: I iv ii V Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 1
- Video 4: I iv ii V Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 2
- Video 5: I iv ii V Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 3
- Video 6: Module 9 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
Q&A with Ian King
A previously recorded seminar with Ian King, where Fretboard Accelerator students get their questions answered.
(Augmented) Root Position Fretboard Matrix
- Video 1: Module 10 Introduction
- Video 2: Augmented Triad Check-Up
- Video 3: Aug Triad / Root inversion / Shape 1
- Video 4: Aug Triad / Root inversion / Shape 2
- Video 5: Aug Triad / Root inversion / Shape 3
- Video 6: Combining shapes / Position 1
- Video 7: Combining shapes / Position 2
- Video 8: Combining shapes / Position 3
- Video 9: Module 10 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
(Augmented) 1st Inversion Fretboard Matrix
- Video 1: Module introduction
- Video 2: 1st Inversion Augmented Triads
- Video 3: Aug Triad / Root inversion / Shape 1
- Video 4: Aug Triad / Root inversion / Shape 2
- Video 5: Aug Triad / Root inversion / Shape 3
- Video 6: Combining shapes / Position 1
- Video 7: Combining shapes / Position 2
- Video 8: Combining shapes / Position 3
- Video 9: Module 11 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
(Augmented) 2nd Inversion Fretboard Matrix
- Video 1: Module 12 Introduction
- Video 2: 2nd Inversion Augmented Check-Up
- Video 3: Aug Triad / Root inversion / Shape 1
- Video 4: Aug Triad / Root inversion / Shape 2
- Video 5: Aug Triad / Root inversion / Shape 3
- Video 6: Combining shapes / Position 1
- Video 7: Combining shapes / Position 2
- Video 8: Combining shapes / Position 3
- Video 9: Module 12 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
(Augmented) Continuous Movement System
- Video 1: Module 13 introduction
- Video 2: Aug Triad Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 1
- Video 3: Aug Triad Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 2
- Video 4: Aug Triad Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 3
- Video 5: Module 13 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
Q&A with Scott Devine
A previously recorded seminar with Scott Devine, where Fretboard Accelerator students get their questions answered.
(Diminished) Root Position Fretboard Matrix
- Video 1: Module 14 introduction
- Video 2: Diminished Triad Checkup
- Video 3: Diminished Triad / Root position / Shape 1
- Video 4: Diminished Triad / Root position / Shape 2
- Video 5: Diminished Triad / Root position / Shape 3
- Video 6: Combining shapes / Position 1
- Video 7: Combining shapes / Position 2
- Video 8: Combining shapes / Position 3
- Video 9: Module 14 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
(Diminished) 1st & 2nd Inversion Fretboard Matrix
- Video 1: Module 15 introduction
- Video 2: Diminished Triad Inversion Checkup
- Video 3: Diminished Triad / 1st inversion
- Video 4: Diminished Triad / 2nd inversion
- Video 5: Combining all Diminished Inversions
- Video 6: Module 15 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
(All Chord Types Combined) - Continuous Movement System
- Video 1: Module 16 introduction
- Video 2: What is a I–IV–iii–biii–ii–V Chord Progression?
- Video 3: I–IV–iii–biii–ii–V Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 1
- Video 4: I–IV–iii–biii–ii–V Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 2
- Video 5: I–IV–iii–biii–ii–V Continuous Movement Exercises / Position 3
- Video 9: Module 16 Wrap Up
- Workbook
- Play Along Tracks
- Exercises
Q&A with Scott Devine
A previously recorded seminar with Scott Devine, where Fretboard Accelerator students get their questions answered.
What This Curriculum Helps You Develop
Become a more confident, reliable bassist, with The Fretboard Accelerator.
“This course has been spectacular — I’m really learning a lot and my confidence is growing. Thanks so much!”
— Andrew T
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An Exclusive Bonus Collection by Simon King
Simon King is a bassist with decades of professional experience, multiple studio credits, and a reputation for breaking down complex musical ideas in a way that sticks. These bonuses are absolute gold.
The Bass Fretboard Etude Collection
The Bass Fretboard Etude Collection includes 24 melodic bass etudes designed to help you apply the concepts from the Fretboard Accelerator in a musical, practical way.
Rather than drills or isolated exercises, these etudes encourage movement across the neck — reinforcing fretboard awareness and note relationships as you play.
They also span a range of difficulty levels and musical styles, making them useful whether you’re building fundamentals or refining your understanding later on.
Each etude comes with a matching video walkthrough, where Scott demonstrates the piece and explains how to approach it — helping you focus on musical intent rather than guesswork.
In total, the collection includes 24 fully notated etudes and nearly 5 hours of focused video guidance, designed to reinforce the core ideas taught in the main programme.
The Ultimate Grooves Play-Along Collection
The Ultimate Grooves Play-Along Collection includes 20 professionally recorded backing-track grooves designed to give you a musical space to explore ideas without distractions.
Each groove lets you focus on note choice, rhythm, and feel — without worrying about song structure or losing your place.
These play-along grooves act as a controlled practice environment, making it easier to experiment with new lines, fills, and rhythmic ideas at your own pace.
Each groove includes a short video overview, where Scott breaks down the key musical elements — including feel, rhythm, articulation, and note choice — along with three example bass lines you can study and adapt.
The collection spans a variety of styles and tempos, giving you a flexible resource you can return to whenever you want to apply ideas from the Fretboard Accelerator in a musical context.
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Why I Teach the Fretboard This Way
Over the years, I’ve worked with thousands of bass players at all stages — from complete beginners to full-time professionals.
As the founder of Scott’s Bass Lessons, I’ve spent over a decade teaching bass online, creating structured programs used by players around the world.
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What I've seen again and again isn't a lack of effort or ability, but confusion caused by fragmented learning. Players collect shapes, scales, and exercises without a clear way to organise them.
The Fretboard Accelerator was built to solve that problem.
So if you’ve ever felt unsure on the fretboard, like you know what you want to play, but don’t always trust where your hands will land. I understand exactly why.
I’ve spent years helping bass players make sense of this problem, and I’d love to help you do the same.
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“I am starting to see the shapes and options in real time and see it on the fretboard but also in my mind when I close my eyes and let the fingers do their thing.”
– Guy C.
What This Level of Guidance Typically Costs
Learning the fretboard with clarity usually requires guided instruction.
For many players, that means private lessons, at rates of $50–$100 an hour. Even a short run can quickly add up to $500–$1000, often without a clear structure to follow between sessions.
The Fretboard Accelerator provides a structured learning path you can work through at your own pace — with clear progression and lifetime access. Rather than paying by session, you’re investing in a complete framework designed to support long-term understanding.
👉 Enroll today in The Fretboard Accelerator for just $249.
The entire program costs less than a good pedal — but unlike gear, this investment transforms your playing forever.
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I know how much this program can transform your playing — but I don’t expect you to just take my word for it. That’s why The Fretboard Accelerator comes with a 30-Day, No-Questions-Asked Guarantee.
Dive into the lessons. Work through the master patterns. And if you don’t feel your bass playing leveling up — just let us know within 30 days and we’ll give you a full refund. No hassle.
Enroll today, try everything risk-free, and see how much you can improve.
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Everything You Get in The Fretboard Accelerator
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FAQs
All modules of the Fretboard Accelerator will be available to you immediately after purchase! You’ll be inside and playing in a matter of minutes.
You get to access the materials for life. Seriously!
The core curriculum of the Fretboard Accelerator is on-demand, which means you get immediate access to all modules after signing up, and can learn at your own pace.
In each module there’s between 1 hour and 90 minutes of video spread out over 8-10 lessons.
You don’t need hours a day. Most students see incredible results with 3-4 focused practice sessions per week. I recommend anywhere from 20-40 mins per session. Also, the guided practice sessions and assignments are designed to fit into a busy schedule while still giving you steady progress.
The Fretboard Accelerator is backed by my 30-day 100% money-back guarantee, which is now trusted by over 80,000 bass players like you from around the globe. Just send one quick email to our friendly support team here in the UK within 30 days of your order date for a complete refund.
The Fretboard Accelerator is completely self-paced. All modules will be available immediately after signing up, and you have lifetime access to all the recorded material. Which means you can complete the course on any schedule that works for you.
If you're a total beginner, this program is not for you. You should be able to play the instrument already and have a basic understanding of things like arpeggios and scales. Be that as it may, if you're anything other than a total beginner, you will find this accelerator valuable.
If you're the kind of bass player who's not willing to practice their craft and expects to get better by simply watching more and more videos hoping that it'll raise their game, this program is not for you.
Although the exercises for this program are demonstrated on a 4-string bass, they are totally transferable to 5 and 6-string basses. This is because the core concept is based on shapes that can be played on multiple locations on the fingerboard, no matter how many strings your bass has, we’ve got you covered!
Absolutely! This program is a complete methodology that will work for any style of music.
Final Word
The fretboard doesn’t need to feel confusing or unpredictable.
Once you understand how it’s organised, moving around the neck becomes far more natural — and you stop second-guessing yourself when the music shifts.
The Fretboard Accelerator was built to help you develop that understanding, step by step, in a way that fits real practice time.
If that’s the kind of progress you’ve been looking for, I’d love to guide you through it.
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