Measures 1-4 of a D Flat Scale for Advanced Bass Guitar

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Part of the video series: D Flat: Advanced Bass Guitar

Summary: Play, or walk measures one through four in a D 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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Measures 1-4 of a D Flat Scale for Advanced Bass Guitar

So, now we're going to take a look at our first four measures, and you want to write this down at home. Again, if you don't have manuscript paper, you can just write bar lines on a blank piece of paper, like so, write D flat minor, and E minor. And you want to go through the whole tune land do that, so you can through and reference back. We start right here on our D flat minor, right And on our D flat scale, that's one, right, D flat. So, we're going to write that down and indicate it with a lower case Roman numeral because it's minor. Major scales get uppercase Roman numerals. Then we have E, so we have D flat, E, right, D flat, E, F, G, but we should be going D flat, E flat, F, G flat. So, we have an E, so that is a two, sharp 2 minor. Right, because instead of E flat we have E. So, that's our sharp 2 minor, and those are our first 2 chords; our 1 to our sharp 2. Now, we're going to show you how to find them. So, if this is our D flat right here, right? So, we have 1 minor, and I'm just playing a Latin bass so we can just kind of stick on that one, and that is just going up a string and up 2 frets to the fifth. And then the other fifth is on the same fret a string below. So, we have 1, 2, here's our sharp 2, right, if we have 1, 2, our sharp 2 is right there. So, 1, to sharp 2, 1 to sharp 2. So, make sure you get that under your fingers and make sure you really get where that 1 and that sharp 2 are, so when we go through and apply our scales and walk through these chords, you can just follow right in to that.

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