Summary: Learn tips for reading a bass chart when playing swing music on bass in the key of G, or G flat scale; learn how from our expert upright bass player 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
"So now that we have our G scale down we can go through and number it one through seven, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one, six, five, four, three, two, one. What that does is it gives us all our intervals. Here's the second. Here's the third. Here's one three five. Probably heard that bass lines a million times over and over again. It's your basic triad. Now I moved it up a string. So now we can go through and get all our intervals. We have an octave. Here's a ninth, a tenth and as we go through and walk some Bebop bass in our next segment numbering it from one through seven helps out greatly cause we're going to through an extra note in there as well."
eHow Article: Tips for Reading a Bass Chart in G