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Summary: Play swing music on bass in the key of Ab, or A flat scale; 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 & AnswersSo today we're going to go over A flat major on the upright, and we're going to go through, show you how to walk through the scale, and we're going to show you the bebop scale which is just adding one extra note to make it an even note scale. And we'll show you the pattern how it's written out on paper, so you can see it visually, and first of all we'll show you how to find your actual frets 'cause you notice there's no frets on the bass, and it's easy, it's just finding octaves. You can hear the difference between this and this, right? In tune, out of tune, in tune... and we'll use this to find our first four notes. And usually just these first four notes on the fingering, or on the fretboard, we can play through this entire scale as we can all the scales, and I encourage you to go through all twelve keys and once you do that, you'll have this part of the bass down pat, so you should really go through that, and we'll get our minor chords out of here. We have B flat minor, and E flat seven, are both derived using the same scale, so you'll learn in just this one scale, you'll learn three scales all in one, with one pattern, and you'll be able to move around and start walking some double bass.
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