Playing Tritone Substitution Bass Scales in F Major

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RYAN LARSON: So now that we have our basic chords out of the F major scale, we can start adding in what we call tritone substitution. And what that is, is when you're doing, like, moves like 3-6-2-5, where we have these roots 3-6, open string, open string, 2-5. And what we're going to do is instead of playing the notes in the scale, we can use these tritones. A tritone is a fret in the string down, so it's diagonal. And you can use those as substitutions for any of those notes. So instead of playing the 5, I can play this flat 2 here. So we're going to hear how that sounds. So I'm going 2-flat 2-3-6-2-flat 2, or I could substitute the 3 for this minor 3rd here. So we can go: 3-3. And now we're going to have to substitute the 6 for this minor 3rd here. So we go 3-minor 3-2-5-3-down to 2. So these are just nice substitutions and it really gives you a lot of chromatic lines and you can just, instead of doing your 2-5-pattern like up in this box form, you can just make it go down the fret chromatically. And that's your tritone substitutions in the key of F major.

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