Reading & Playing Bebop Bass Scales in G Major

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Now we are going to go through and walk some bebop on the bass. Now the thing about bebop is you are going to be doing a lot of fast runs and we have a seven note scale. But the problem is we are playing in four all the time and we are going to need an eight note scale to end up on the one again. So you'll see here is our problem, one, two, three, four, five and two, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, see I had to play the G twice. To get to the G on time with enough intervals in between you want to make a eight note scale, so I'm going to throw a chromatic note in there. I'm going to throw the third fret on the third string so we start, see how I ended right on the one. (playing guitar)One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, you can just also bounce back and forth in the scale to kind of postpone of getting to the one. (playing guitar) One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one. Again a lot of bebop cats like to use those chromatic notes in between the scale and really assigns you to land on one at the appropriate time. The notes in between really don't matter as much (playing). That is a basic bebop approach to the bass starting on G.

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