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Summary: Walk a bebop bass line in G minor 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 minor scale down, we can use our same technique by adding in a chromatic note, and walk the bebop scale and we can get our minor bebop scale down. Again you want to swing it as much as you can. So you can move around and get some nice bass tones going, and you want to really walk that and you can walk that for hours, and the more you practice it the tighter you'll be, and the better your intonation will get.