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Summary: Play swing music on bass in the key of G, or G major 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 twelve-key technique... read more

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by Ogical

a minor is the relative of C major, not G major. If you keep the notes of the G major scale you get A DORIAN, which is different from any other minor scale. Regardless of what music you are playing, your hand position is not very effective.

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How to Play Swing Music on Bass in G

So today we're going to go over the upright bass, first thing I'm going to do is show you how to do get your first four frets. And once you tune it, all you have to do is find the octave and we'll show you how to do it, it's a very easy process. And you can mark it off at home with tape, or whatever you like to do, you don't want to ruin your bass now. And then we're going to show you how to walk through this G major scale. So we'll go through and show you some bebop notes you can walk through, and play some extra notes outside of the scale, we're really show you the scale so you can get it under your fingers, and we'll show you the correct fingering to use and how to keep your hands safe from tendinitis and other worries of the bass. And we'll go through and analyze this one scale G major, and we get two other scales that are derived out of it. You have A minor, and you have D seven, and both of them utilize the exact same scale pattern, and if you click on the link at the top of the screen, you'll actually get the help sheet, or the cheat sheet that we have for you to print out, and you can print out and look at it and it has E major analyzed on the bass. So you can go through and start having some fun with our day-to-day lesson plan.

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