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Summary: Play, or walk the second measure in a jazz bass D 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 gone through our first measure and we come to our second measure, this G7 which is our IV7 right? D, E, F, G and we have to walk for another whole four beats and then we go back to our I major chord. So this is a good opportunity to practice just walking from one to four. So we have IV right here, right? So again IV, I, IV, I some chromatic notes in there IV, I, IV, I, IV, I, IV, I chromatic notes IV, I, IV, I IV, I and you can just do this for hours and just start perfecting your bag of tricks and really get that D major scale under your fingers. And well you can walk it this way too where our four is down here right IV, I, IV, I, IV, I, IV, I. So go through it and really get that scale under your fingers as we go through and start walking through D major.