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Summary: Play, or walk the second measure in a jazz bass F major 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 walked our first measure and we went over all those different ways you could go from F to B flat. So now, we're going to go over all these different ways. You can go from B flat to I, so IV to I. So now we started here, right? We're right here on our B flat and then we have to get to here or here, right? So I can go IV, I, IV, I, right? I fell down to it IV, I, IV, I, IV, I right? Or I can go from the high IV to the low I, right? IV, I, IV, I. So you can--there's always these different ways. You can stay on the same scale pattern and get from one root to the next. If you really want to keep that in mind, if you go through your tune slowly and really plot our a root for your fingers to fall.