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Summary: Use different rhythm methods and note structures to play a few bass guitar rhythm examples; learn how from our expert bass guitar player and teach in this free music instructional 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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Bass Guitar Rhythm Examples

CASEY CORMIER: Okay. So now we've learned some new tricks to reading rhythms with eighth notes, sixteenth notes, ties, dotted rhythms. We can start putting some of this stuff together to read an example of a rhythmic scheme. So, in a genre such as reggae or dub, which is a popular genre with using electric bass, you won't have just straight quarter notes. Here we have an example. This is our quarter note pulse, one, two, three, four [PLAYS BASS LINE] B-D, G; C, C-C, C-C, C, D, B-A, D; G, G-G, G-G, G, G, B-D, G; C, C-C, C-C, C. D, B-A, D. You notice when we played that that there was a lot of one-and, two-and, three, and-a, there was a lot of eighth notes and there was definitely a tie between the two measures. So, let us take a look at it as if it was written. We start off with eighth notes, G, G-G, G-G, this one is a quarter note, G-G, but on the "and" here, we tie over. When we played the B, it ends up happening on an "and." One-and, two-and, three, and-four, and. One-and, two-and, three, four-and, and-two, three, Pause, this is the quarter note rest. And the same rhythm here, one-and, two-and, three, four-and, and then if we had continued on as I played B-A, D, it would be be the same rhythm with different notes. So the important thing is to try to understand your reading a rhythm like this, try playing it yourself. G, G-G, G-G, G, G, B-D, G; C, C-C, C-C, C. D, B-A, D, okay? Good luck.

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