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Summary: Number the seven-note scale when playing upright bass in F major 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 twelve-key technique... read more
So now that we have our scale down, again I want to reiterate that we want to number it one through seven. And the importance of this is when you're playing through the scale you know where you are and say, when you go to analyze tunes in the future, you'll be able to analyze it doing this, using this one scale. And we'll do that in a different segment. But right now we just want to get this scale down. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, two, three, four, three, two, one, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. And that also gives you all your intervals, like, if you go one to five, that's called a fifth. One, five, five, one, five, five, one, five, five, one. Or if you go one to seven, that's a seventh. One, seven, one. Or you can go to the six. One, six, so that's a six. And a third is here right, there's your three, and here's, your four's right here right above it, right, four, four, five, four, one. So by numbering the scale, you get the different intervals that come out of the scale, and you'll see how we use the same scale when we number it again for our minor and our seventh chord, how you'll still get the same intervals and they'll fall almost in the same exact pattern.