Playing Tritone Substitution Bass Scales in G Flat (Gb)

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RYAN LARSON: So now, we have our 1-6-2-5's done on the bass. You can also do 3-6-2-5. Then if you noticed, if I play it up here, here's our 3-6-2-5. You have that box form, right? Going down, skipping a fret each time. Now, what you have is--a tritone substitution is instead of playing, say, the six I'm going to play this tritone as a substitute. So I'm going to play this flat 3. So I'm going to have. So we've got 1-3-6-2 and you could use that as a substitution for the 2 as well. If I want to use a 2, any of them you can substitute the tritones. So I can go 3-6-flat 6-5-6-flat 6-5, or I could use the 5 as a substitute. So I go 3-6-2-flat 2-1. So you can use it anywhere. So instead of going up a fret to your 5, so you have your 2-5. You can go to your 2 to your flat 2. So instead of a 2-5-1, you can have a 2-flat 2-1. So it's really just adding chromatic notes instead of going up a fourth, you go chromatically. So it's a nice chromatic way to approach the bass and you can use it over any chord. You can use your tritones substitution and it works great over 2-5's. So go through and start getting some alternate patterns to your 1-6-2-5 licks.

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