How to Play a Bass Bebop Walk on 2 & 5

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Summary: Walk a bebop bass line on two and five when play swinging music on upright bass; learn how from our expert upright bass player in this free music instruction video.

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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

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"So now that we have our two minor down and our five seven we can start what we walk, what Jazz cats call, walking a two five. Very basic Jazz vocabulary going from your two minor to your five seven. So our A minor to our D seven and we can just keep walking back and forth. I'll do two measures of each. Then one measure each. Then a half measure each and you'll hear the basic sound and you'll hear how we run it through A.D, G, A, D, G, A ,D, G, A, A, D, G, A, D, D. So go through and start working on your two fives in every key."

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