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Walking the Chords of a B Flat Scale for Advanced Bass Guitar

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Summary: Walk four beats through each chord of the B flat scale, learning the scale as an alphabet; learn how from a professional bass guitar player and composer in this free music instruction video.

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Walking the Chords of a B Flat Scale for Advanced Bass Guitar

So now that we've gone through a lector scale, we're just going to reiterate all the information we have so you can go through and really get it embedded in your brain. So we started again, right, six fret. Six, eight, ten, six, eight, ten, seven, eight, ten, seven, eight, ten. Then we have our B flat major scale. B flat, C, D, E flat, F, G, A, B flat, C, D, E flat, F. And then if we start on our 8th fret, with the same scale pattern, we have our C minor scale which starts C, D, E flat, F, G, A, B flat, C. If we start on our 5th degree, we have our F7 scale. F, G, A, B flat, C, D, E flat, F. So now a good exercise really to get the scale under your fingers is to block four beats each in the scale pattern starting on your two and going to your five to your one. So two, five, one. Two, five, one. Two, five, one. So I'm just hitting notes in the scale moving around. As you get more advanced you can put chromatic notes in there. So you start on the two. But right now you just really want to make sure you have that scale under your fingers. Make sure it's written down so you can go back and reference to it and really get that pattern under your fingers because again, this pattern's movable. So you can use this pattern on B flat, B, A, C flat, any of the frets that start on the bottom string the same scale works throughout the whole12 note series. So go through and really memorize that scale and get it under your fingers.

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