Playing a Blues Scale on Bass Guitar

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For this lesson we're going to be talking about the twelve bar blues. The twelve bar blues is one of the most common or popular progressions of jazz pop music, blues itself, it's a very widely used progression. What it is is it consists of twelve bars each of these are a bar, 1, 2, 3, 4 and then we have three of them so twelve and it's all dominant chords. So we have a C seven an F seven a G seven and then more C sevens over here. In the twelve bar blues we use what's called a one, four, five progression. To explain that if you look at just the root notes of the chords we have a C which is our 1, and then we go to F which is the 4 of C. If we count on our finger, C, D, E, F so we have the fourth. And then here we have the G, which is the five, which is C, D, E, F, G. So we have for the first four bars, we have the one. The next four bars we have the four and then we go back to the one. And the next four bars we have the five and then again we go back to the one. So here is the twelve bar blues using all dominant chords with a one, four and five progression.

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