Pitch Names of a D Flat Scale on a Bass Guitar

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RYAN LARSON: Now, we're going to go through and show you how the scale is written out on tab. So if we look at this piece of paper here, this is what tab looks like. And you'll notice we have four lines for the four strings, starting with your high string up high and your low string down low. And we wrote out the fret numbers: 1-2-4-1-3-4-1-3-4-1-3. And then if you remember, it goes 1-3-5-6. So you can write that down at home. And I've put a square around the root and colored it in, so we start right here on the 4th fret, third string, right? Remember? And that's your D flat. And then you have up a string, your 1st fret, 3rd fret, 4th fret; then up a string, your 1st fret, 3rd and then it's off page but 5-6. And you really want to go through and write this down at home. And then we can keep going down to 3-1-4-4-2-1. And again, we number this 1 to 7 starting on the square which is at four--the 4th fret, third string: 1-2-3-4-5-6 and 7-1 for the 5th and 6th fret. And then if we go down, we've got 1-7-6-5-4-3. So as we go through and analyze, we will find a lot of chords that starts on the 2 or the 4 or the 5. And we can walk through the same pattern and get different chord-quality sounds just by changing the root we start on. And again, I wrote the names of the all the chords down below, but they'll be pretty much get into you as you go through and you can just figure it out. You just get off the alphabet: D-E-F-G-A. All right, that's your four quarter. D-E-F-G-A-B, all right, this is our 5 chord. And there will be flats or sharps in there. But that doesn't matter as you long as you go up the alphabet, it will be the number that comes up and it goes from A to G and then starts and repeats itself. So we have: D flat, E flat, F, G flat, A flat, B flat, C and D flat. Again, when we take a look at the actual music, all the flats and the chord symbols that go along with it are already given to you pretty much. So all you have to do is go, all right, D that's our 1; E that's 2; A that's 5; E, 2; A, 5. So it's that easy as long as you know you're in the key of D flat major and it would be notated with 5 flats, and you'll see that written out as you go through. And you will also notice that it would probably start in D flat major, where you will see a lot of these similar chords that we' going to through and get under our fingers.

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