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Summary: Transfer the blues bass line, looking at it as a moveable function, transferring it to another scale on the bass guitar; learn how from a professional bass guitar player and teacher in this free music instruction video.

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Transferring the Blues Bass Line

Okay, well we just played the blues bass line, basically in open position, with using open strings in A seven, but the most important way to think of the line, and the best way that works, is in a movable function. So let's move it to B flat seven. Let's find the B flat on the E string. It's the sixth fret here. Start with our second finger. Now, beforehand I want you to quickly just play your B flat, mix a-Lydian. B flat, from the previous lessons. Okay. This is important because we will be taking scale degrees from this and outlining it. And we're going to be playing it this way. E flat, G, the third scale degree, fifth fret, fifth scale degree, sorry. F, now the sixth, same shape, starting on E flat on the next strings. Then back. Six, fifth fret, eighth fret, fifth, now, we play the D flat four-seventh. Same thing now on E flat, so notice how the pattern kind of just - they follow each other. Triads, remember. One, three, five, one, for E flat, then D flat. I mean sorry, F, E flat. Now watch this. You're going to play some chromatic in here. B flat, D, E flat, E natural, F, E flat, D, E flat. Okay, the turnaround might not make sense but just try playing it first. And then you're back to the beginning. And that's the twelve bar blues form.

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