thanks pfinesse. i pretty much went home yesterday and started exploring the fretboard and finding new ways to traverse the scales over the fretboard. not new in the strict sense, but getting accustomed to combining different ones. that was pretty much what you sent in that chart. now i can basically study it when i dont have my bass on hand.
i know all about the 6-2-5-1 progressions, 7-3-6-2-5-1 progressions, and the different ways to play them and i use them all the time on sunday morning, best believe. i really study my theory, so like u said before i have more info than i know what to do with, so im trying to connect the technique and the instrument itself with all that info.
i am really theory heavy in my playing, not strictly bound to rules, but a need to know why this or that works. i can sit there and watch anybody solo, but if i dont know why they choose to play what they play, it does me nothing. i dont know how to apply it in other contexts besides where they use it, and all i become is a player who can copy what everybody else does but cant be creative in his own right, and i dont want to be that guy. so more than "oh it sounds good" i have to know why it sounds good