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Summary: Know what to look for when reading swing progression for an upright bass, including walking techniques and scales; learn how from our expert upright bass player in this free music instruction video.

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Swing Bass Progression Reading Tips

So now we went through and played through these changes, so now we're going to try to do a little soloing, utilizing the same scale. And what you want to do is still kind of outline the scales that we've done, so that way you can tell the difference between A flat major and B flat minor, and just move around the scale and see if you if you can do it melodically. So we'll start here, A flat, B flat right, B flat, E flat, B flat, E flat, A flat. So by utilizing the scale one more time, and I still put some chromatic notes in there, and I fooled around with it, I can outline all three of these chords even while improvising, just by keeping them kind of in the back of my mind, and make sure I kind of bass my whole strategy around these patterns as they move back and forth.

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