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Beg to the roots & Major Scale info please


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Ok been doing some You tube browsing and need some help, several of the online lessons refer to the "Major" scale but do not explain what this is in relation to Rockabilly - can anyone explain in simple terms or am I missing something obvious?

Also I like Beg to the roots lessons but ever thing is noted in double bass abs, again an explanation on ho this notation works please.

Sorry if dumb questions

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[url="https://www.studybass.com/lessons/reading-music/how-to-read-bass-tab/"]https://www.studybass.com/lessons/reading-music/how-to-read-bass-tab/[/url]

Answered part of my own question....... I am not a fan of tabs but would like to play about with some of the bass lines he used.

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Music theory is quite a big and deep subject. I'd search out online music theory websites and start there. You'll need to gain an understanding of keys and key signatures, scales and how they are built with modes, relative major and minor relationships, progressions etc... :) There look to be quite a few resources online to help with this.

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Difficult to know what you mean by 'in relation to rockabilly'. The scales are related to every musical style. You can play as few notes, or as many of them as you wish in your music but its a case of figuring out what 'feel' you want to achieve.

Simple rockabilly (Johnny Cash style) sticks to basic Root/Fifth type playing with some single and occasional double slap, as in those videos, to give the Boom-chicka-Boom sound.
https://youtu.be/Roug4qG7qCY

Add just a few additional notes to climb/descend from one chord to another and you could have something like Bunker Hill's You Can't Make Me Doubt My Baby.
https://youtu.be/5tKul8mXb3c

Take it to a simple 12 bar run using 2 more notes over root/fifth and you could get Hocus Pocus by The Raiders.
https://youtu.be/sWJY80hVmwg

Then, take a few more notes, jump between octaves, put a bit of a swing into the timing and you could have Ronnie Self's Ain't I'm a Dog
https://youtu.be/FhZRvyvzi7M

Its all Major scale, its all rockabilly, but it all has different approaches.

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Thanks for all the advice, I have reached a stage where the books are just not interesting me, the music is bland and I really need to find a couple of songs that I enjoy and can play along to, to rekindle my interest. I have always loved rockabilly / blue grass type music. The books are boring me so these are some great suggestions. Its a hard slog if you are not enjoying the sound you are making.

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