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Summary: Use forms to play through a song 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 12 key technique to ... read more
RYAN LARSON: So now, we've gone through our entire bebop blues form. And I'm just going to walk through, counting out the degrees of the scale as I play it. And you'll see how I'm just staying in that major scale pattern. So we've got--we're starting on our 1 chord, right? One-4-1-5-1-4-sharp 4-1-3-6-2-5-1-6-2-5. Again, 1-4-1-3-6-4-sharp 4-1-3-6-2-5-1-6-2-5-1. So that's your bebop blues on the bass. So go through and start expanding your bag of tricks.