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Summary: Use forms to play through a song in a jazz bass C major scale on a bass guitar; learn how from our professional bass guitar player and composer in this free music instruction video.
Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more
"RYAN LARSON: So now we've walked through our entire bebop blues form. So I'm going to play through it and count out the actual degrees of the scale as I land on them, and I'll do it a couple of times so you can really get it under your fingers. Again, remember, you want to write this down at home. It's 12 bars and we start right here on I. So I, IV, I, V-I, IV, sharp iv, I, iii-vi, ii, V, iii-vi, ii-V, I---top of the form--IV, I, V-I, IV, sharp iv, I, iii-vi, ii, V, iii-vi, ii-V, I, and that's your bebop blues in the key of C. So go through it and get all those different bass lines, memorize and set in your bag of tricks."