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Bogdan Radovic26th April 2010Thanks a lot for feedback! Let me know if you need any help with the material!
Lian Gerbino26th April 2010lovely playing man! really useful stuff
Ivan Milenkovic26th April 2010very good addition to already famous bass series!
Daniel Realpe26th April 2010very helpful lesson for some of us who play bass from time to time as well
Adrian Figallo26th April 2010indeed very useful man, great addition to the gmc vault!
Zsolt Galambos26th April 2010Awesome lesson for beginners, especially for blues fans!
Kristofer Dahl26th April 2010What a perfect bass lesson topic Bogdan - I am sure there are many guitarists who will want to learn this on bass as well for home recording etc.
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Want to start playing walking bass lines in blues style? In this lesson you will be presented with all the tools you need to be able to instantly improvise your own walking blues bass lines. Example 12 bar walking bass line is included.
CONTENTS:
- Roots 5ths and octaves in blues walking bass
- 2 feel/4 feel
- Making root, 5th and octave cells
- Adding the 3rd
- 12 bar blues form
- EXAMPLE 12 Bar Blues Walking Bass Line with slow videos and extended angles.
-Key: F
-Tempo: 120 bpm
-Time signature: 4/4
-Tuning: standard
-Difficulty: beginner/intermediateEquipment I used for getting this sound was: Am Fender Jazz Bass deluxe, equal mix of both pickups with added bass and middle on on-board preamp - then going to the nemesis (eden) amp with a 1x15" and flat eq there.
Feel free to ask me any questions in the lesson's feedback and in my instructor board at the forum.
Enjoy and I hope you'll have a lot of fun learning to play walking blues bass lines!
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