Measures 7-8 in a Jazz Bass E Major Scale

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Summary: Play, or walk measures seven and eight in a jazz bass E 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 twelve-key technique... read more

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Measures 7-8 in a Jazz Bass E Major Scale

RYAN LARSON: So we walked through our first two chords of the second section, the A, A sharp and then we get back to E so our I chord again then we have our iii-vi. So we have E 1-2-3 right, so G sharp to C sharp right, E, F sharp, G sharp A, B, C sharp. So we go on G sharp, C sharp. And since each of those each gets two beats, I can just do like [PLAYS WALKING BASS] and I'm going into the ii so I want to lead into this ii but--or I can use that half step approach just sliding in or I can use [PLAYS WALKING BASS] so [PLAYS WALKING BASS] so I'm kinda using two notes in between and then landing there so iii-vi, iii-vi, ii, V and so on. So now we're going to walk these four measures here starting on our A7 to our A-sharp half diminished then we go back to one and then iii-vi. So if you look at my hands, we start right here IV, iv, I, iii-vi. So again we just went IV, sharp iv, I, iii-vi, ii, and then we're going into the ii. So those are your next or last four measures of the second section of our bebop blues.

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