Add Passing Tones to Improvise Walking Patterns on Bass Guitar

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OK, so we have our traditional blues bass line, that was based on the one, three, five, six and flat seven intervals. Basically our outlining of our arpeggio but plus adding a six in between the five and the flat seven. Well that's great, but if were going to play a long blues jam session, we don't want to just play the same line over and over. We want to start being able to, your know, change things up. One of the most fun things about playing blues and jazz and those kinds of music is improvising. Well this is basically a stepping stone towards that. What we're going to do is add passing tones to our blues bass line. So we know when we're playing say a blues in B flat seven, that we're basically we're dealing with a Mixolydian scale for B flat. And then for the four chord, E flat, we're also dealing with Mixolydian scale. So these are our normal notes. But between these we can change things up. So say we just start, we know have on the first measure we have four beats of B flat seven and then we're going to have to go to E flat seven. Let's try to just land on the root notes for now. Watch, like D flat, D, you'd have to go here. But we could also, play B flat, D, F.

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