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Summary: Learn how to walk the bass line 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
So now we're at measures nine through ten and we're actually going to go all the way to twelve. And we have our F minor chord here, which is our four minor chord, and then our C minor, our one minor chord. So we simply just utilize that minor scale pattern again, except that we're going to start on our four, and then we're going to start on our one, as we did in our first measure. So if you look at my bass, remember this is our minor scale pattern, right, but this is our major scale. Our minor starts right here. But now I'm going to start that on the F. F, C, F, C, F minor, C minor, F minor, C minor, so just utilizing the same scale pattern, I can play these two chords, and I just utilized the two different roots.