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Summary: Play upright bass in F major swing, finding all of the notes in the scale; learn how from our expert upright bass player in this free music instruction video.
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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 twelve-key technique... read more
So today we are going to show you how to find the first 4 notes on your fret board being these notes. So we are going to learn those on all 4 frets and we'll do that by doing fifth, and doing fifth here. After we do that we are going to show you our F major scale and using this 1 scale we can get 3 chords F major, G minor and C 7th. So we'll walk F (playing) then we'll walk our G minor and it uses the same pattern. (playing) Then we'll walk our C 7 (playing) so using this 1 scale we'll show you how to walk all 3 of these chords and a great way to practice it and go through and get your basic chaps up on open position on the upright double bass.