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Upright Bass Scales: F Major
Upright Bass Scale Structure
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Summary: Start your bass scale with a root note. Learn how to build a scale for upright bass in this acoustic bass lesson from an expert bass player.
Shane Allessio lives in Boston, where he studies classical/jazz music, and gigs at night with local jazz, R&B, and rock groups. He has been musical since childhood. At the age of...read more
"In this video I'll be talking about scale structure. So to build a major scale, first you need to have a root. Let's start with F. This is the root of your scale. Now in the major scale there are seven notes. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven and you're back to one. There's a pattern to build the notes. Now when you finger the space between the first finger and the fourth finger is a whole step. The space between each finger is a half step. So the major scale, you start on the root and it goes whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, whole step, half step. No matter where you are as long as you have a root, you can build a major scale using those whole steps and half steps."
eHow Article: Upright Bass Scale Structure
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