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Why Play Jazz & Latin Grooves for Advanced Bass Guitar?
How to Play the 12 Bar Blues
What is the Blues Bass Line?
How to Play a Blues Bass Line
Transferring the Blues Bass Line
Add Shuffle to Swing the Blues on Bass Guitar
Adding Eighth Notes on Bass Guitar
Add Passing Tones to Improvise Walking Patterns on Bass Guitar
Chromatic Passing Tones to Improvise Walking Patterns
Reading Chord Changes to Move into Jazz
Reading Chord Changes to Walk to the Bass Line
Walking Bass Lines with Chord Changes
Walking Bass Lines Within a Mode
The Two Feel in Jazz
The Two Feel in Jazz Using Eighth Notes
Playing Double Time on Bass Guitar
Playing Double Time Walking Down the Scale
Playing Latin Rhythms on Bass Guitar
Playing Latin Rhythms Using Quarter Notes for Transition
Latin Grooves with Chord Changes
Latin Grooves with Chord Changes & Dotted Quarter Notes
Reading Key Signatures on Bass Guitar
Reading Key Signatures by Counting Steps
Improvisation & Chord Changes on Bass Guitar
Improvisation & Chord Changes Tips
Summary: The prototypical blues bass line is a bass guitar foundation that contains four beats in 4:4 time; learn more from a professional bass guitar player and teacher in this free music instruction video..
Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more
"Okay, let's look at the blues bass line. There is one bass line that, maybe you've even heard before, but this is the popular blues bass line. This is the prototype on which its based. Let's say we're in the key of A seven, we're playing the A seven twelve bar blues. The first thing we'll be outlining is an A seventh. But we're going to only get to a certain point with it. We have four beats, 'cause it's in one measure, and we're in four-four. We're playing quarter notes. So we're going to play, A, C sharp, E, and then the sixth scale degree of an A major. Or an A dominant even. The F sharp. A, C sharp, E, F sharp, which happens to be the third scale degree of our D seven. D, which is the next chord, our four-seven. D, F sharp, A, B, so, A, C sharp, E, F sharp. Make sure you're alternating these fingers over here to get a good swing sound. D, F sharp, A, B. "
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