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Summary: Take a visual look at the D 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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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 going to take a visual look at the scale. I'm going to start - you start right here on the second string, fourth fret, right, one, two, three, four. Right in between your first dot and your second dot. It's your fourth fret, and you skip a fret, skip a fret, so four, six, eight. And the same thing on the string above it, four, six, eight, and then you go five, six, eight. And have you have four, six, eight on the lower string too. So if we make this one and count up to seven, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, that's your D flat major scale. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, two, one, seven, six, five, four, three, to one, seven, six, five. So you have one to one, and you have five and two on the outskirts here. So that's your major scale, and you want to really get it under your fingers, and we'll go through and give you the names so you can write that down in reference to it. But what's really important now is that you get that pattern under your fingers so you can utilize it and move around, and again, we said if you start on the two, you get in your minor scale, and if you start on your five, and play down you get your seventh scale. And those are all the scales you can get out of your D flat major scale.