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How to Play a Bebop Walk on Bass in G

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Summary: Play a bebop walk when playing 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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How to Play a Bebop Walk on Bass in G

So now we're going to walk G major Bebop scale. How we do that is we add in another note so it becomes a eight note scale. You can add in any of these dots on the sheet that you printed out and added into today. Or you can just add in a chromatic note in the pattern. So like say here instead of, let?s go, so I'm going to add in my pinkie here on this off fret. Now I can walk the scale for days. Cause it offsets so I'm on G on the down beat one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one. As before it was 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. See I got to it on four. Have to get to it on one. By adding in a chromatic note we can get to where we're going and it makes everything sound smooth. People don't really pick out those chromatic notes as long as you land in the root in the right place no one will every tell. So you can go through an walk some Bebop bass on the upright.

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