Bass Lessons - The Arabic Scale And Medieaval Music bass tab

Arabic Scale and Medieaval music:

This tab demonstrates the arabic scale, and gives an example

song in the

arabic scale. Then it will demonstrate the dorian mode and will

show some

ways to make medieaval-sounding music with it.

The Arabic scale in the key of C:

(that just means it starts on C)

G|-----------------------------------------------|

D|--------------0--1--3--5--3--1--0--------------|

A|--------2--3-----------------------3--2--------|

E|--3--4-----------------------------------4--3--|

Fell fre to fool around with the scale and make little riffs or

even songs:

G|-------------------------0-1-0--------------------------------|

D|------2-------2------2-3------------2-------2--2-------2------|

A|--3-4---4-3-4----3-4------------3-4---4-3-4------4-3-4---4-3--|

E|--------------------------------------------------------------|

Dorian Mode in the key of G:

G|--0--2--3--5--7--9--10--12--10--9--7--5--3--2--0--|

D|--------------------------------------------------|

A|--------------------------------------------------|

E|--------------------------------------------------|

This is the main theme to a medieaval song that is now used as a

curch hymn

but I am doing it on two strings, it makes the piece sound more

ancient:

G|--0--7--9--5---7--3---5--5--7--3--2--0--|

D|--0--7--9--5---7--3---5--5--7--3--2--0--|

A|----------------------------------------|

E|----------------------------------------|

Here's something that I made up:

G|--12----12--10--7--9--10--12-7--0--0--3--5--7--5--3--2--0----3-0--0--|

D|--12-12-12--10--7--9--10--12-7--0--0--3--5--7--5--3--2--0--3-3-0--0--|

A|-----12--------------------------------------------------3-----------|

E|---------------------------------------------------------------------|

I hope that this quick tab was useful.