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Summary: Play the A flat minor scale when playing upright bass in G flat swing; learn how from our expert upright bass player 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
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Questions & AnswersNow we're going to take a look at A flat, and we're going to actually look at the chart first. And this will make it a lot easier. Our minor is derived out of the second degree of the scale, so if we want one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, this is our second, right, A flat, so A flat minor starts here, utilizes the same scale except now we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. And you'll see how it has the same intervals, right. There's your second, actually it has a minor third, so instead of the third being here it's here, and it has a minor seven, so instead of the seventh being a fret up it's right here above it. So we have the same six, there's a fifth, fourth, so we got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. And again the main difference is you have a minor third and a minor seventh. And that's how you get your minor scale, so we use the same pattern and we walk it, right here, so we got one, two, three, or one, two, flat three, four, five, six, flat seven, one, one. And you can hear how it has that darker quality to it, as opposed to this...we got this... and it's a little stretch on the fingers, but it's good exercise, and that's your A flat minor scale, and we'll go through a little bit more on that in just a minute.
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