We can create a walking bass line over the following twelvebar blues chord progression. Hal leonard 12bar blues bass bookcd musicians friend. Chicago, minor, slow, bebop, and other blues styles. Slow 12 bar blues beginner by bass lessons text bass tab. The turnaround occurs in the last two measures of a 12 bar progression and is often a critical element of the progression, so a solid understanding of the 12 bar format is needed.
Slow 12 bar blues beginner text bass tab by bass lessons. This book and audio package is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be. When playing, you repeat this form over and over for every verse until the song ends. In lesson 2, we continued to build patterns for the common chord progressions we see in blues. Examining the 12bar blues pattern if youve ever spent any time around a serious blues musician or music aficionado, youve probably heard the phrase 12 bar blues tossed about. A bar is a musical phrase, a way of measuring the music against its rhythm, and blues songs are structured in a. Become a member, purchase studypacks, buy suggested products or donate. Hence, the 8 bar blues has 8 measures, and 8 key changes. Instead of having a few different things to try in this lesson, we are going to learn a written.
This lesson will use dominant 7th, dominant 9th, and dominant th chords. So far we have patterns for each chord change in the 12bar blues except for one, moving from v to iv i. In its basic form, it is predominantly based on the i, iv, and v chords of a key. There are so many variations of the blues but lets focus, for now, on one thing and you can diversify from there. Jazz, rock, pop, folk, country all these are more or less heavily influenced by the blues. The blues is the cornerstone of many styles of music and everyone should know how to play a 12 bar blues bass line. Book ii in the constructing walking jazz bass lines series, rhythm changes in 12 keys provides various insights into how the rhythm changes song form may be approached by the jazz bassist. Today well be focusing on the fundamentals of the 12 bar blues and. You should remember a bar is the same as a measure. The 12bar blues is by far the most popular form for the blues. Using the 12 bar blues shuffle chunka chunka style for 34 minutes can become quite tedious, so breaking into a few cycles of this 12 bar blues bass line style can add a lot of interest, although it can be a little difficult to to play if you are singing at the same time.
Misc the real 12 bar blues bass tab i cant believe that people get this so wrong, the 12 bar blues is not one riff it is a chord sequencehere u go. The total blues bassist is a unique and exciting journey through the diverse world of blues bass playing. Once you learn to play the 12bar blues on the guitar, you can play such classic blues pieces as hound dog, stormy monday, kansas city, st. Each of these songs follows the 12bar blues pattern. Most often in blues you will count 4 beats to each bar 44 time. Bass lesson goldmine 100 blues lessons bassline publishing.
I warmed up with that 1st exercise from simplified sightreading for bass that i tried yesterday, and then ran through all of the hal leonard stuff up until exercise 35 rolly again. A bar is a musical phrase, a way of measuring the music against its rhythm, and blues songs are structured in a 12 bar format. The complete guide for bass inside the blues by dave rubin feb 1, 2012. For example if i were to play the 12 bar blues in c, the. Start with your 1st finger in the 2nd fret fourth string. The 12 bar blues is one of the most popular types of chord progression in contemporary music. Bass fundamentals12 bar bluesjazz blues chord progressions. A fundamental of playing bass is knowing the blues and how the. The most common form of the blues is a 12bar pattern of chord changes. What better way to create than with some blues just jammin out with your band. This is probably the mostused riff in blues and rock music. A fun and comprehensive overview of blues bass playing. Instead of annoying, creepy, privacyinvading ads, popups, or selling your data, studybass relies on the support of its users.
In part three of our walking bass series, we are looking at the final changes for the 12 bar blues. The blues has influenced countless styles of musicincluding rock, jazz, pop, and countryand is loved for the depth of feeling it captures. This book and cd package is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for. Although blues music has evolved over time, a fundamental chord progression called the 12 bar blues still lives on. Expand your bass guitar knowledge with the bass lesson goldmine series. The term 12bar blues has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis. The turnaround is probably the most important part of the blues progression, its the place where the men are separated from the boys. Youll hear this sequence in s of songs, either in this pure form or with a couple of simple variations. I ran exercise 35 rolly from the hlbm book really slowly, like i did with that 1st one in the ssrfb book, and nailed it multiple times. How to play a 12 bar blues on the bass guitar easy lesson. This book and audio package is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12bar blues with authority. The twelvebar blues or blues changes is one of the most prominent chord progressions in popular music. Its the one thats been giving me some difficulty when i run all of the material up to the 12bar blues exercise. Hal leonard 12bar blues bass book cd the term 12 bar blues has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock n roll, and other forms of popular music.
The complete guide for bass is a bookcd combo offering up a wellrounded approach to learning or improving playing various forms of the blues rubin starts off with the basics, including tuning and breaking down the blues bass scales. The complete guide for bass the term 12bar blues has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock n roll, and other forms of popular music. This bookcd pack is solely devoted to providing guitarists with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12bar blues with authority. Today im back with another installation in my bass lesson videos. Bass fundamentals start with the 12 bar blues using the intricate jazz blues chord progressions. So far we have patterns for each chord change in the 12 bar blues except for one, moving from v to iv i. I have been learning a cool blues i found on a sheet music its. The blues progression has a distinctive form in lyrics, phrase, chord structure, and duration. Below are some common dominant chords that will be used in this lesson. Blues music paved the way for many other genres of music we know and love. Hal leonards inside the blues series released earlier this year has an edition focused solely on bass, penned by dave rubin. So are you ready to dig in a become mature blues guitar player.
This book and cd package is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12bar blues with authority. The term 12 bar blues has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock n roll, and other forms of popular music. Should you need to know how to read tabs click here read me all tabs are standard tuning. Play the 12 bar blues for absolute super beginner guitar lesson duration. This book and audio package is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12 bar blues with authority. The most common form of the blues is a 12 bar pattern of chord changes. As the name suggests, it features in blues guitar a great deal, it is also used very commonly in jazz, rock, pop, country and even heavy metal. A comprehensive guide to constructing walking jazz bass lines for the double bassist and electric jazz bassist is a complete 12key guide to techniques and devices used to construct walking jazz bass lines in the jazz tradition. Turnaround is the name of the last two bars of a blues progression. The first thing any bass player needs to do when learning blues bass guitar is learn the 12 bar blues sequence. In the case of jakes blues we are in the key signature of g. This book and cd package is solely devoted to providing you with all the technical tools necessary for playing 12 bar blues with authority. A walking bass line is simply a melodic bass line found mainly in jazz and blues styles in which you walk around in quarter notes connecting the chords.
Jazz bass books walking bass line in 12 keys upright. Constructing walking jazz bass lines, book 1, the blues in 12 keys. Hal leonard 12bar blues bass bookcd the term 12bar blues has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock n roll, and other forms of popular music. The 12bar blues form exercises blues bass studybass. Rhythm changes like the blues is an essential part of the jazz musicians walking bass line vocabulary. The term 12bar blues has become synonymous with blues music and is the basis for an incredible body of jazz, rock n roll, and other forms of popular music. Start playing these progressions using a single note in the.