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Summary: An introduction to the B flat scale shows briefly how one scale can be utilized to get the most out of it, as our professional bass guitar player and composer explains in this free music instruction video.
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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 today we're going to learn our B flat major scale. And this pattern that we get out of the major scale is movable. And we're going to show you how to utilize these different patterns under your fingers, and then we're going to go through and actually read through some chord changes that I took from some actual tunes that you'll find in your every day, day-to-day real book. And we're going to go through and walk through the changes, and I'm also going to show you how to analyze them, and while we're analyzing them, we're going to apply a little Latin bass to keep it a little bit more interesting, and we're going to show you the tab for the scale, we're going to show you how to write it down at home. And then how to analyze it, how to get the actual notes that you're playing and write it down, so you actually know what you're playing while you're playing it. And we're going to go through and learn all the different chords we can get out of the major scale. So, basically we're going to take this one scale and do as many things possible that we can, to utilize it.