Chords for 50 R&B Bass Grooves - #48 - Bass Guitar Lesson - Andrew Ford

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Groove 48, Rainy. _ _
This Chuck Rainy groove shows how to use open strings and chords
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_ Alright, here [F] we have a different kind of [F#] groove.
It's [D#] kind of more of [F] a soul.
I guess you would categorize it R&B soul.
But it's something that Chuck Rainy [E] had brought into
_ a lot of the R&B soul [D#] world
when he started playing these double stops,
[F#] _ _ [Gm] _ these two notes together that kind of make chords,
[D] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ doing that kind of thing and putting them into pop R&B songs. _ _
_ And automatically, [D#] when I would hear that sound,
I could tell it was Chuck.
He would actually use that in some of Steagally [D#] Dan's songs also.
[E] But [C#] he would use that kind of approach of [G] adding _ _ [Em]
chords
and, _ _ you [D] know,
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_ different ways to _ _ _
[A] voice chords on the bass _
_ [E] that would [Em] make, you know,
and he would put them [Dm] in appropriate spots in the songs,
and they would really set themselves apart _ [D#] in the music
and kind of was something that he was known for.
_ _ So we're going to try to, _ actually, _ let's break this down.
_ The _ first one that we do [F] is basically over,
_ _ it's basically a 2-chord progression,
and we go from E [E] minor, E minor 9 [Fm] to _ _ A9.
[F#] So over the [E] E minor 9, [G] he's going to play this chord, _ _ _ _ _
which is G, [D] _ D, _ [G] to the 3rd and the 7th,
and the open E.
_ _ [D] He's going to make that sound.
[F] But what I'm doing here is I'm going to,
which [G#] Chuck had a, _ _ [F#] commonly did was, _ _
[G] _ _ he slid, he [C#] kind of did a hammer-on.
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[F#] Either you can _ _ _ [G] finger it one time,
_ [F] _ or you can _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ finger it two times, finger,
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and it's like a half-step _ [C#] _
interval
_ that we're going from this F sharp and C [G] sharp to G [F#] and D.
_ [D] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _
_ So that kind of thing, or just one [F#] time.
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ Just got to make [C#] sure you do it hard enough
[Gm] _ so it comes in clear the second time [F#] also.
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_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ So that's a nice effect there.
And then I also do another chord with the _ _ _ _ _ bell-like,
this bell-like sound, which is going to be again D and G.
So we just kind of invert it a little bit,
still playing [D] G, D.
_ _ [D#] We're playing [G] D, G _ [Em] with the E. _
_ _ Still outline that minor _ _ 7th sound.
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So it's good for you to [D] learn [E] _ _ different [C#] _ chords,
voice them differently in different parts of [G] the neck, _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] both E minor.
_ And then over the A, [D] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ I use the open A. _ _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ So what I'm [D#] going to do here is I'm going to use the C sharp,
_ _ _ which is the [F#] major 3rd. _ _ _ _ _ _
Then I'm going to use the F sharp, which is the [G] 13th,
_ _ _ and also the [C#] _
_ G there, which is the flat [F#m] _
7th.
_ [G] _ So in between those, [D]
I'm going to use this pivot,
[Fm] which is going to be the [A] open D,
which of course D is not [D#m] in that A9 [D] chord,
but I'm using it.
_ [F#] _ I'm using [D] it to pivot off of, _ _ _ _
and I'm using it kind of as _ a ghost note,
so you don't really hear _ the pitch of the D, the open D. _ _
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_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ That kind of thing,
_ to create a _ _ _ _ _ _ chord over that A9 [D] chord.
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_ _ And the last thing I'm going to do
is kind of [D#m] to [D] pull off some _ slides,
_ which are also double stops.
The first [Em] one _ _ is_
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_ _ [D#] First was G to G and B,
which is the [D] flat 7th and the _ 9th of [D#] _ A9.
_ The second one is the 13th and _ [F#m] the root A. _
[B] _ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [E] That kind of thing for color.
[D#] So there's a lot of little double stops [A] in there,
and like I said, Chuck would do those things
and put them in the right [D#] spots in songs.
_ So let's play this one slower,
all the way through together.
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_ 1, _ 2, _ 3, 4.
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_ _ [A#] _ All right, try that