Analyze Sheet Music for Bass Guitar in Ab (A Flat): Part 1

Video Transcript

"RYAN LARSON: So, now we're going to go through and I wrote out this chord changes. This is on regular paper so you can copy it at home just in case you don't have manuscript paper. Basically, you just have to draw these lines, each one symbolizes a measure. So, we got our first two measures and we have an A-flat minor chord. So, A-flat minor, A-flat. So, we're in the key of A-flat. So, this is our 1 minor chord and we indicate that with a lowercase Roman numeral. So,1 minor. And then our next chord is a B minor so A, B but aren't we suppose to have B-flat, right? So, that is a sharp 2. So, we're going to notate that as a sharp 2 minor. Again, we use lowercase Roman numerals for minor chords and uppercase Roman numerals for major chords. But right now, we're just using lowercase because we're using minor chords. So, now when we look at the bass, we have our root right here. Here's the 6th. Oh, no. Here's the--it was the 6th fret right here. Here's your A-flat, right? So, we have A-flat, so there's our 1 minor and then here's our 2 but we need a sharp two so there's our sharp 2. So, if I went through and I played this with a Latin bass going from 1 to 5, I go 1 to 3 minor, 1, 2, sharp 2. And we'll show you how to go through and walk all of these too but first, you just want to find those roots."