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Summary: Learn about root bass notes with expert tips and advice on bass guitar lesson in this free video clip on music.
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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 twelve-key technique... read more
Now we're going to go through measures five through eight. Again, you want to make sure you're writing all these measures down at home so you can go back and reference and compare them to your tab and your scale degrees. We have our F sharp major here, for two measures, so, C, D, E, F. So that's our four, and it's a major chord, but it's a four sharp right, F sharp. So that's out of our scale, but we still can find the root by going to sharp four, so up a fret from the fourth. Then we have our G, so that's our five, right. C, D, E, F, G. Five minor chord. And then a C seven, a one-seven chord. And we'll show you how to walk through all this as we go through and walk through, but right now we're just finding the roots, so don't worry about if it's major or minor. Again, we're just going to go through and walk through each one. So now we're going to go through and find those notes on the actual bass, so we have one, two, three, four. And it's a sharp four, right, F sharp, so there's our sharp four to our five, right above it, one, so we got sharp four for two, to five, one, and that leads to four, and you can hear how that five-to-one wants to go to four. And that is the next measure that we're going to go over in the next segment.