Viewing videos requires the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player.
Get the latest Flash player.
Get the latest Flash player.
Summary: Read the G flat chart when playing upright bass in G flat swing; learn how from our expert upright bass player in this free music instruction video.
Views: 312 | Tags: technique, bass, scales, swing, upright, bass lessons, upright bass
About the Expert
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
Comments
Questions & AnswersNow we're going to learn our G flat major scale. And it starts here on the second fret and you start with your second finger and you skip a fret, pinky. Then your first fret, second fret, fourth fret, first, third, first. And we're going to look at that on paper so you get a better idea of how it looks. So, if we look at the paper, we have our four frets here that you should have notated, right? Here's your first fret and we played E to E, or E to E is right here actually. So that's that octave we got. And then we did G flat to G flat to get our next two frets, right? So, here we are we have G flat, A flat. Then you go back to your first fret, B flat, C flat, D flat. So notice we skipped this fret here on the bottom two lines. And then we skipped this fret here on the top two lines. You have E flat, F, G flat, A flat, B flat, C flat. Now, if you click on the link at the top of the screen it will go to this so you can print this out and use it as a reference. But we're going to go through and I wrote the correct fingering. So we start with our second finger, fourth, one, two, four, one, two, four, one, two, four. And now, after looking at that, when you watch me play you'll get a lot clearer of an idea, right? Two, four, one, two, four, one, two, four, one, two, four, one, two, four, one, two, four, one, two, or two, one, four, two. So again, we don't use any open notes. But, it's very good and we got a lot of fingerings going on.
Email this video to a friend
Ask A Question
