Bassist Victor Wooten has been the bassist for Béla Fleck and the Flecktones since the group's formation and is a member of the band SMV with Stanley Clarke and Marcus Miller. In the video above, he talks through a way of defining how musical keys are formed, with simple rules which can be applied to differentiate flats, sharps, major, and minor keys.
See the full extended interview this excerpt was taken from here:
Victor offers a range of books on the subject as well as running musical camps.
Earlier this year he released a new book entitled 'The Spirit of Music'
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