How to Comp Bass Chords

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Now I'm going to give you a basic introduction on how to Comp chords on Bass over the twelve bar blues. If you remember, to play our chord, for example a C7, we're going to omit the fifth and we're going to play the first, the third, and the flat seven. Now what I'm going to do I'm going to take it up because chords sound clearer up here in the Bass, so that they're not as muddy. What we want to do is get our three chords down for the basic blues. We have C7, which I just showed you. Our F7, which we're going to play like this. And, then our G7, which we are going to play like the F7 but bring it up to G. Now, what you want to do to practice this is have a metronome or, in my case, I have a drum machine. You're going to play every chord for quarter notes over the entire twelve bar blues. For the first four bars, we're going to do C7 quarter notes. For the next two bars we're going to do F7 quarter notes. Then back to C for another two bars of quarter notes. Then we have G for two bars, and C. I'm going to give you an example of how you would do that. (audio demo) That's how you want to practice it in order to get the feel and how to change between chords down. If you want, once you do that you're more comfortable with chords, you want to change it up rhythmically, start thinking like a a piano guitar player in order to not be so monotonous with your comping. Now I'm going to give you an example of how to Comp chords more musically. One, two, three, four. (audio demo) So that's how you would Comp chords in a more musical setting.

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