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Summary: Play a seven-mode C chord when playing upright bass in F major swing; 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 we're going to look at C seven, and we're going to refer to our chart one more time so if we look down here at the chart, we have C here, and then we go up again, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And you want to walk this scale. Notice how we only get up to here. If you want to get that last C, you're going to have to use one, for finger you're going to have to use one, two, and then four over there. And all these threes on here should be fours, that's my mistake. No that's right. It should be one-four, one-four, two-four, two-four. Sorry, three's obviously the finger you dismiss. But if you go one, two, four at the top here... and that's your C major scale and you can go down too. So obviously when we're walking our bebop scale in C, and first position, we're going to have to keep coming back to this C, and we can still work around it using our same scale, and we'll do all this in just a minute."