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Add Shuffle to Swing the Blues on Bass Guitar

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Summary: Use a shuffle feel or style on your bass guitar to speed up the rhythm to eighth notes, rather than playing straight chords, creating a swing in the notes; learn how from a professional bass guitar player and teacher in this free music instruction video.

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Add Shuffle to Swing the Blues on Bass Guitar

Okay, so far we've played the blues bass line, let's say in B flat, we did A too, A seven, we played it and just with quarter notes. Now that's nice, but sometimes we want to give it a shuffle feel. Basically what happens is we'll be also swinging the eighth notes. We'll be playing in the eighth notes, but not just straight notes. First let's do it straight, two B flats, two Ds, two Fs, two Gs...but that's kind of boring. The shuffle is where we delay, that's the eighth notes. One and two and ... instead of one and two and, it's one and two and, so, one, one and two and three and four and one and two... and that's the swing feel. If you hear it with a metronome it might help. Slow it down some... two, three, four... one and... so it's not...da, da, da, da, da. Almost feels like a dotted rhythm, but it's not completely. So try playing the blues progression bass line. The whole thing. Along with a metronome or tapping your foot, in the shuffle style. And swinging the eighth notes.

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