  It is well established that the collective motion of ion crystals can be used
as a quantum bus for multi-qubit entanglement. However, as the number of ions
increases, it becomes difficult to directly entangle ions far apart and resolve
all motional modes of the ion crystal. We introduce a scalable and flexible
scheme for efficient entanglement between any pair of ions within a large ion
chain, using an evenly distributed 50-ion crystal as an example. By performing
amplitude and frequency modulation, we find high-fidelity pulse sequences that
primarily drive a transverse motional mode with a wavelength of 4 ion spacings.
We present two $500 \mu s$ pulses that can in theory suppress gate errors due
to residual motion to below $10^{-4}$, and observe a trade-off between gate
power and robustness against unwanted frequency offsets.
