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Summary: Play, or walk measures five and six in a B flat scale for advanced bass guitar; learn how from our professional bass guitar player and composer 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 now we've gone through our first four measures and we come to our E major chord, or our sharp four chord, found right here. E major, make sure you have that sharp four written down. And it's a major chord, so what we're going to do, we'll walk our B flat major scale, but now we have one, two, three, four, sharp four. We have to start it, start it on this third dot on the third string here. So we'll just take the same major scale pattern and start there. And the only new notes you have to learn is the, the bottom three notes on the, the low string are the same as on the second string, right? They each skip a fret, skip a fret, up. Skip a fret, skip a fret, up. Skip a fret, skip a fret and then its gets crunched here on the top. So now we can walk our first six measures. We start on our B flat minor, right? The sharp three to four. So we're just taking that same scale pattern and shifting it to the different roots that we have discovered by our chord analyzation.