Now we're going to take a look at our scale
written out on actual sheet music in bass
clef. So if we take a look at our little sheet
music here--so we have our intervals, and
we have our bass clef, and you have five sharps.
That's so you know it's B major, five sharps.
And not--unlike tab, now we have five lines
and they don't represent the strings on the
bass. The bass doesn't have five strings.
What they now represent is, each line and
space is a different note in the scale. And
so if we start right here on our pattern we
have: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven,
one. No--those numbers are indicated below
the staff; above the staff I wrote the tabs.
So remember we started on two. So we have:
two, four, one, two, four, one, three, four.
So that still doesn't give reference to the
strings at all, but at least you can remember
the tab, right? Two, four, one, two, four,
one, three, four. So if we go through and
play that scale now, it's the exact same pattern:
two, four, one, two, four, one, three, four;
or if you go by the numbers, you have: one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. And
now when you're reading, all those notes are
what falls on that scale. And if you have
a flat or a sharp, a flat means use the note
below it, and a sharp uses the note above
it. So if we go: one, one, two, to flat three,
instead of using this three, we use the open
string. One two, flat three, four, five, we'll
use flat six, seven, one--one, seven, flat
six, five, four, flat three, two, one. So
that's an example of some flats in there and
you'll come across that, but remember right
now we're just really concentrating on that
pattern. And we're going to go through and
really analyze that pattern as we go through
the rest of today's program.
