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Afro-Cuban Bass Lines for Bass Guitar

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Summary: Play Afro-Cuban rhythms as an advanced bass guitar playing technique; learn how from a professional bass player and teacher in this free music instruction video..

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Ryan Larson Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his twelve-key technique... read more

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Afro-Cuban Bass Lines for Bass Guitar

CASEY CORMIER: Hi. So earlier on when we were discussing Jazz and Latin Jazz we did mention Afro-Cuban. Afro-Cuban style is basically a mixture of funk and Jazz, it has some elements of each. In the Afro-Cuban rhythm, it's very involved in a funk type of way as for the Afro part, but then the Cuban part is with certain Latin rhythms that we're using, and so it's a combination sound. So, let's learn a very popular Afro-Cuban line and just kind of notice what the rhythms are. One, two, three, four [PLAYS AFRO-CUBAN BASS LINE]. Now, you have different ways of fingering this, but basically what you're doing is you're outlining an E flat 7 by playing the first degree.

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