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Summary: Play, or walk measures seven and eight in a jazz bass D flat scale on a bass guitar; learn how from our professional bass guitar player and composer in this free music instruction video.

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Ryan Larson Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his twelve-key technique... read more

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Measures 7-8 in a Jazz Bass D Flat Scale

RYAN LARSON: So now, we're on our seventh and eighth measures of our D flat bebop blues, and we start right here again on our D flat, our 1 chord, and then we have our 3 to our 6, which is going to lead into our 2. So we got D flat for a measure then 3-6 each for half a measure. So if we look at my fret board, again, we have 1, right? Then we've got 3; 3 is right here, and 6 is right there, so 1-3-6-1-3-6-1. Again, I'm using these chromatic passing tones. But as long as I land on the 3 and the 6, it will sound gorgeous. So 1-3-6-1, chromatic into 3, chromatic into 6, and 1. So even though I'm going a little out of the major scale pattern, it's okay because I'm landing on the notes that are in that pattern on the beat that they should be played on: 1-3-6-2-1-3-6-1. So those are your next two measures of your bebop blues.

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