Video: How to Play 1-4-5 Bass Guitar Progressions

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Play the 1,4,5 bass guitar progressions when playing blues; learn how with tips from our professional bass guitar instructor in this free music lesson video.

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jeremiah.emmanuel2 Oct 28, 2011
Great!
evuser4572 Apr 09, 2009
SIMPLE...Hum it > play it! :)
evuser4572 Apr 09, 2009
SIMPLE...Hum it > play it! :)
lisa114 Apr 02, 2009
Carl, I am a new player and a little older then most starters and I didn't get all the notes on your 1-4-5 bass progression. I have prpobably watched 25 times and your fingers move wonderfully FAST for this old lady to see--could I get you to tell me specifically what you have played. I didn't have trouble with your other lessons you said them and the postions. I so appreciate your lessons-I live way out in the middle of the rice fields in California in a little town with NO musical anything for miles and miles--this has been an answer to my prayers! Thank you!!!!
lisa114 Apr 02, 2009
Carl, I am a new player and a little older then most starters and I didn't get all the notes on your 1-4-5 bass progression. I have prpobably watched 25 times and your fingers move wonderfully FAST for this old lady to see--could I get you to tell me specifically what you have played. I didn't have trouble with your other lessons you said them and the postions. I so appreciate your lessons-I live way out in the middle of the rice fields in California in a little town with NO musical anything for miles and miles--this has been an answer to my prayers! Thank you!!!!

Video Transcript

Hi! I am Carl Shepard with expertvillage.com here talking about different blues bass lines and what we do if we’re playing a bass line in the key of G particularly the box pattern, we want to take a look at where that progression comes from. It is a one-four-five progression and what I mean by that is if you take your major scale one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do, you have seven different notes because do and do are the same note. That is G, this is G. So in that, if you count up your notes one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, you have one, where the first progression starts, this is four where the second progression starts and then the fifth note there of the scale, so let me jump up here to the fifth, back down to the fourth and here is the first. So in any major key a one-four-five progression is going to be very popular and that is where this stems from and that is what a rock is based out of, so this is a very popular progression one-four-five.

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