Playing a Jazz Bass & Melody Lines in A Major

Video Transcript

"Alright now we're going to go through and do some baselines for playing through the tunes so you can play a baseline and melody. Baseline left hand obviously. Now the first thing you want to do is just go through your basic chords in the key and just play one, three, five and seven out of each one. So you have A major. Just keep walking up and down in each one so we'll do the E7. F-minor or sharp minor. B-minor. A major. Again you might have to refer back to the pianist palette for some of the chords but basically you want to go through and get the ones down in the key. It only goes out of the key a couple of times. Now, when you're actually playing through the song, you're going to have to accumulate for each, the amount of measures you play. So, a lot of these chords only have two bars so just play one and three. So, one and three. One and three. One and three. One and three. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four or it should be one, three, five, seven. One, three, five, seven. Then the B-minor. One, three, five, seven. One, three, five, seven. So if you put that with the melody you have.. Three, five, seven, one, three, five, seven, one, three. And I'm just playing the basic chords. And then if you look at the one, three, five, seven outlines all the basic black chords. So, what you're really doing is taking what you're doing with your right hand here and just taking it down a notch and just separating the notes cause you see if you play, it just sounds, it just doesn't sound good. But if you play one note it sounds excellent so just take those simple chords and break them up and come up with some cool rocking baselines."