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Summary: Read a B flat bass chart when playing 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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How to Read a B Flat Bass Chart

So now that we've learned A flat major we can go and learn our second chord or our second scale which uses the exact same pattern, E flat minor. And you can go through at home, mark this down on your chart. If you look at the chart we have right here so you can get the information now. Here's B flat minor, right? A flat and we went one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. We numbered it right? So now we have B flat minor. And that's our minor scale. So if we start here we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. And we get this whole new set of intervals. I get my fret board, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. And what's beautiful about this is now that we've numbered it we have all these intervals again. But now we have a minor third and minor seventh. So we have one, two, minor third, fourth, fifth, sixth, minor seventh, one. So we get all this whole new set of intervals and we get a whole new scale derived using the exact same pattern as A flat major. And we're going to go through and do a little bit more on B flat minor throughout the rest of the segment.

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