How to Play Walking Blues Bass Lines

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Now we're going about Walking Bass on the more advanced Blues. We're going to use ideas like our arpeggios, we're going to walk our scales, and we're going to use our passing tones, and we're also going to use this new scale, the Dorian mode or scale, in order to cover these areas right here with the minor chords. The areas you want to look out for are these areas with the two chords per bar because in those instances we only have two beats per chord. Because we only have four beats in a bar, total. So, for E minor 7, you're only going to play the E Dorian scale for two beats and we're going to go to the A7 Mixolydian scale. For here, we have four beats, four beats, but here again we only have two per chord. So you're going to play the C Mixolydian scale, the A Dorian scale, the D Dorian scale, and the G Mixolydian scale. Now I'm going to give you an example of how you would do that. Watch for what I do in these instances, because in these instances we've only got two beats. You're going to want to do something like a passing tone from E to A. Or, if we're going to go from C to A to D to G. (audio demo) All I'm doing is I'm playing the root and a passing tone up to the next chord. Just keep an eye out for that, so here's an example of Walking on the more advanced Blues. (audio demo) Right there is an example of how you would use all of these combined scales and arpeggios to Walk on the more advanced Blues.

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