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Summary: With basic improvisation techniques, read chord changes when making passing tones to transition from blues to jazz; learn how from a professional bass guitar player and teacher in this free music instruction video.

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Reading Chord Changes to Move into Jazz

Okay, now that we've learned the blues, and we've learned also how to walk, kind of in our own way on the blues, let's learn how we can apply that same thing to other chord changes. So that would basically lead us into jazz, in walking through jazz bass lines. So say we have chord changes that are like the one, minor six, minor two, and five. And let's make some of those seven chords, okay. Let's take a look here. Let's stay in the key of B flat. D flat is our one chord. The G minor seven is our minor six, C minor seven is our minor two, and F seven is our five-seven dominant leading back. Now before we just used arpeggios to link these, but let's try to make it a little more interesting. Let's use some passing tones. We get back to here, we're going to have B flat, and each of these gets two notes, that's the other challenge. The thing is with the blues, we had a lot of time, we could really outline more, now we don't. Now we're pretending that they're and then this will happen commonly in jazz, in four-four, timing, in four-four time signature, we get two beats for each. So let's look over here. We're going to start with our root note of B flat. Now we only have one other note before we got to be outlining a G minor. Now we could go B flat, we could also play B flat to A, to G. Or we could play D flat to F, and then to open G. Let's do that one. B flat, F, G.

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