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Summary: Learn tips on how to outline bass melodies in this free music video on chord voicing in Eb, F minor, and Bb7 chords for piano lessons.

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How to Outline Bass Melodies in Chord Voicing

So, now that we've gone through and we've outlined the basic tone centers to these three chords we can go through and play them individually along the keyboard and you get some bass. So, you should start just doing one, three, five, seven. F minor, E flat major, F minor, and then you can do some voicings up here. So, it's a great way to practice and start getting your bass chops up as well which is a very good thing. We could also walk up the scale. It sounds a little square, but if you add in a chromatic note and use your bebop scale or if you look up bebop scale on Expert Village it will give you information on how to do this as well. But, you can get. And I'm just adding an extra note so I have more time to get to my room, right? E flat, E flat, and just add some extra notes. E flat. I'm just playing all chromatic notes here. E flat. All chromatic notes. E flat. So, as long as you hit E flat on the downbeat that's really where the money is at. So, go through and start using your own ideas.

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