When I was a kid, one of the first things I learned how to do was play bass lines.<\/p>\nWhen I was a kid, one of the first things I learned how to do was play bass lines.<\/p>\n
Blues bass lines, in fact.<\/p>\n
You know those ones you’d hear Ray Charles rumbling on his left hand?<\/p>\n
Heck, those bass lines were what gave me the confidence to keep going because I could actually play something that sounded like something… hehe.<\/p>\n
And I was the type to show off when family came over so it got addicting. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
My grandma and her brothers (I never had immediate uncles but I had tons of great uncles) would say “that boy is bad” because those bluesy bass lines were right up their alley. Play something from Disney<\/em> and you immediately lost their attention. Oh yeah… “bad” is good as in “he can play!”<\/p>\n And now I’m going to share with you some of the concepts I used over 18 years ago to play some of my favorite blues bass lines.<\/p>\n (My experienced players will most likely already know this. My up-and-comers… pay a lot of attention): My first bass lines came from regular major chords<\/a>
\n<\/p>\nUsing major triads to learn bass lines<\/h2>\n