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Summary: Read and play jazz bass in E major 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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How to Play Jazz Bass in E

RYAN LARSON: So today we're going to take an in-depth look on how to walk some basic chord changes in the key of E and we took some basic chord changes that you will see in fake books. We took a "Bebop Blues" and we took some rhythm changes that were in way back in the day. And we're going to walk you through them and show you how the notes derived and the different chords all come out of the same scale. Now, this isn't typical for every tune. A lot of tunes go in between different keys, but this will give you a good basis to start reading through, and then as you go on to more advanced pieces, you can go back and reference the other different keys, and find out how to walk through everything. So, we're just going to give you a basic outline of how everything falls on your fingers and how every scale is numbered. So you have your numbers here, that's your major scale, and it's numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 1. And each one of these different notes in the scale can be used as a basis for a different chord, so we're going to go through and find those different chords and we're going to find those different bass notes and we'll be walking in no time.

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