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Summary: Play, or walk the scale pattern of a latin bass tune in D flat 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 12 key technique to ... read more
So, now that we have all the routes down and all our cord structures that we are going to run through their scales, we can play through the whole tune. And I'm going to play it to you, calling out the routes I play and the scale I play. And we started with our one minor, slid up to our sharp two minor, sharp four major, five minor, one minor, four, one minor, sharp one minor, sharp four minor, five, seven, one tap at the two, one minor, slide up to the sharp two, sharp five major, five, one to four minor, one minor, sharp one minor, sharp four, to five, and we are back at the top of our tune to D flat. So by utilizing that one major scale and driving two other scales out of it, we can play through a whole reel book tune, just by moving that scales around and switching the base note that we go to.