How to Play a Blues Bass Line

Video Transcript

"Now, now when we play two bars of the A seven, the line is different. It first starts the same. C sharp, E, F sharp, now, for the next measure, we throw in the seventh scale degree. The flat seventh, G, for our dominant. F sharp, E, C sharp, so now it's A, C sharp, E, F sharp, G, F sharp, E, C sharp. Now you do the same thing because we have two measures of four next. Now we're on measures five and six of the twelve bar form. D, F sharp, A, B, C, C is the flat, B, A, F sharp. And we do another two measures, for measures seven and eight, for A seven. Same thing that we had before. Now we could do for E a turnaround, outline the triad 'cause it's an E seven, so there is the triad major. E, G sharp, E, and then go back to E 'cause we're just staying in this area for now. D, F sharp, A, F sharp, so we're just doing triads. Now we're going to go A, C sharp, D, E, D sharp actually, E, D, that's a chromatic, we'll talk about those in a little while, C sharp, B, so the important thing so far is just a line. Okay?"