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Scale Visuals of a B Flat Scale for Advanced Bass Guitar

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Summary: Take a visual look at the B flat scale for advanced bass guitar play; learn how from our professional bass guitar player and composer in this free music instruction video.

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Scale Visuals of a B Flat Scale for Advanced Bass Guitar

So, now we're going to give you a visual look at our B flat major scale. And the B flat that we're going to use today is found right here, on the lower string on the sixth fret, and it's right between the two dots here, your second and third dot, there's your B flat. You can count out from the bottom; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And it skips a fret each time for the first 2 strings. You have 6, 8, 10, 6, 8, 10. And then the next two strings is the same pattern, except it starts on 7, 8, 10, 7, 8, 10. So, that's your major scale. And it's, there's a name for each note, B flat, C, D, E flat, F, G, A, B flat; and it keeps going, C, D, E flat, F. So, we're going to go through and utilize this scale, also, to start a minor chord, we just start on the second note of the scale. So, instead of starting on the sixth fret on the low string, we'll start on the eighth fret. And we'll walk from C to C. And that's your minor scale. And we'll go through and show you how to notate this and write it down at home so you can remember all these things. And the last scale we're going to do real quick is our, if you start on the fifth degree, you get a seventh scale. It's a little confusing, just remember, it's the fifth degree, and it's called the seventh scale. Get that in your mind. We start on the eight fret on the second string, and we've got, right? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1. So, in this one major scale pattern that we've learned, we've learned our three basic scales in B flat.

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