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Walking Through Section B Measures to Play a D Major Scale

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Summary: Walk through the eight measures of the D major scale on a bass guitar to ensure playing accuracy; learn how from our professional bass guitar player and composer in this free music instruction video.

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Walking Through Section B Measures to Play a D Major Scale

RYAN LARSON: Now we're going to go through and walk through our B section. Again, remember we started on our vi minor chord for two measures and then we go to our ii minor chord for two measures. So we just start on the vi and walk down the scale again, just kinda aimlessly roaming around the scale till we land on E minor, which is our ii chord, and then we roam around the scale aimlessly again for two measures, then we land on the ii again, the V, and then we this I-vi-ii-V turnaround which goes pretty quick, so there's not going to be much aimless roaming around there. So we're going to show you that on the actual fretboard. So if we start here, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, so we start here and we have to walk eight beats and then get to our ii chord for eight beats. So vi, ii, ii-V, I-vi, ii-V. So that last section went really quick, right? I-vi, ii-V. And since there's one note between each one, you can use notes in the scale or chromatic notes and it'll sound good. Watch, I'll use chromatic: I-and-the, vi-and-the, ii-and-the, V-and-the, I-and-the, vi-and-the, ii-and-the, V-and-the, I. So that's you whole pattern for "Mack the Knife" and now I'm going to walk through the whole thing so you can hear it. Start it right here on I, ii, V, ii, V, I, vi, ii, ii-V, I-vi, ii-V, I. So that's the whole pattern to "Mack the Knife" and we stayed right in that major scale pattern and utilize a bunch of different notes within the pattern, still keeping it nice and square.

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