Country groove strumming with bass line played with thumb

How to play chord shapes on a bass guitar. It's not very common to play chords on bass but it can be a very good tool in your bass playing arsenal.

Triads are basic tools for harmonization and building strong sounding bass lines.

Let's learn combining major and minor triads all together in a song situation with different variations.

Major triads are great way to start when composing bass lines.

Minor triads are essential tools for composing a strong sounding bass line.

Learn how to apply walking bass concepts to a ska type of backing track!

We are going to learn some of classic licks common to this style of music. Are you jamming with friends? This is perfect type of bass line to play in that situation.

In this lesson, we'll see how to build a walking bass line with chord accompaniment over a standard jazz blues progression in the key of G.