Advanced Blues Bass Tips

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For this lesson we're going to expand the twelve bar blues a little bit further and add a little bit more complexity and harmony to it. So if you see right here it's still the twelve bar blues, we still have four, four and four so we still have twelve bars. And if you look at the beginning of each of the bars we still have the C which is the one, F which is the four, and we still have the five right there but you see in the parenthesis we have these other chords that are giving the tune more flavor or more complexity. A lot of people play blues when they play in jazz clubs or on stage or anything they'll play a more complex version of it now because the blues have advanced over time. If you see we still have a C for the four bars but we hint at the four chord on the second bar right here. So, it's kind of giving us a hint to where it's going to happen in the music next. But the overall sound of these four bars is still the C seven. Then we go to the four chord like normal, right here and then we land back on the C but now we have something what's called a "turnaround" which is, happens in jazz and pop music all the time. And basically a turnaround is a set number of chords that basically bring us back to where we want to go, it's like a turnround. So we have the C and then we have the three, which if we look at the root motion C, D, E we have the one the C to E the three, and then six A, D which is the two and five. And if we're looking at the root motion again we have C, C, D, E which is three, A which is C, D, E, F, G, A which is six, D which is the two, C, D and the five which is mixolyding which we've gone over before. So this specific turnaround is the one, three minor seven, six seven, two minor seven five or and for short terms the one, three, six, two, five turnaround. Then at the end of the tune we have a similar turnaround except we don't have the E minor seven chord anymore. We have the one, six, two, five turnaround. That's popular in music you can hear it all them. It's popular from like the twenties jazz even nowadays. It sounds like this, you'll recognize it. It's basically just a turnaround, it's a set number of chords that give us a progression that will lead us from C back to C again. So now we have the twelve bar blues, but instead of it being basic we have a more advanced twelve bar blues, with some turnarounds and some hinting at the next chord steps.

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