Advanced Bass Guitar in D

Series Summary

Music has always been a part of all of us as human beings. This being the case, we have devised ways to write it, read it and, of course, play it. We have developed terms for every musical scenario that might occur and ways to teach all of this, as well. Things like minor and major, 7th chords, intervals and chords are all great examples of the way we like to organize things as a species. Improvisation is a great example of the speed at which our brains work. Very popular among jazz players, improvisation is a great tool to test your knowledge of the instrument as well as let go of some of the rules.

In this free video series, watch as jazz musician Ryan Larson teaches advanced bass guitar lessons in all twelve keys. Learn how to read tab and relate it to scale names, how to walk through various bass lines, and how to play a Latin walking bass line. Improve your music theory and bass guitar jazz skills with these easy online lessons from the experts at ExpertVillage.

Video Transcript

"So today we are going over the D major scale here on the bass on the tenth fret. We are going to go over our major scale on D and there is your 2 D's on there D to D. We are really going to get this pattern under our 2 fingers and the other 2 scales we get in our minor chord which starts on the twelve fret. Same scale pattern and our fifth scale starts on the twelve fret as well, second string same scale pattern. So by using this one scale pattern we get our 3 basic chords and now we can run these chords through any chord changes and we can even move this around. What is great about this scale pattern is movable all over the bass so we are going to take this one scale pattern and move it through all these different keys. So you can see how we can play through a whole tune utilizing all these different chords and all these different scales, just using one scale and moving it around the fret board."