Chords for Bass Guitar Lessons - Bass Lines - Ray Charles Inspired - Blues - Soul

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_ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ How's [G] _ _ [F] _ _
[G] _ [Ab] _ it going everybody?
Brian Rashap down here with my buddy Marty Schwartz from GuitarJams _ _ .com.
Giving you another little bass line here that maybe you could learn and throw into your _
quiver tricks.
Okay so this [Bb] is a Ray Charles _ inspired _ _ soul or R&B groove that really utilizes
you know blues progression and then also this almost box pattern _ _ fingering _ _ _ _ thing.
So _
check this out real quick.
I'm going to play it for you slow and then I'll walk through
all the different notes that you're playing.
_ [G] _ _ [D] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[F] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ So we're staying down here this is in the key of G
so you got a G or whatever chord.
It's going to utilize a [C] G chord, C [D] chord, and a D chord
[G] in a typical blues fashion.
The first note is going to be the root which is the G which is the
third [D] fret on the E string.
Second note is going to be a D which is the fifth fret of the A string.
[G] So _
[D] third _ [B] _ [F] note is going to be third fret of the D string [Gb] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _
_ [G] and the fourth note is going to be
the fifth fret of the D string.
_ So right here you've kind of got that pattern.
_ _ _ _ It's almost a
box.
It's all within [Bb] these this little area.
There's no movement in your hand.
[G] You don't need
to _ _ [C] move [F] anywhere or anything.
You can stay in this little pattern, this nice little neighborhood. _ _ _ _
And let's finish out the groove.
[G] So you got [D] you're [F] _ _
[G] _ [C] kind of going to mimic that entire thing
[G] _
going back down to the third fret of the E string that [D] G, _ the fifth fret of the A string,
_ [Bb] and now you're just going to add a couple notes to for for flare.
You need four pieces of flare.
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ And [D] that's it.
This is all together now.
Slow.
We'll do tempo and then we'll do the other [G] chords. _
[D] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ That's it.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ So after you play that on the G chord, you're going to move up to the [C] C chord.
_ _ Same thing.
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ So it's all the same.
Third fret, fifth fret, third fret, fifth fret.
That's for your C [G] chord.
Then you go back to the G and _ [D] _ _ _ [G] _
then you go to the [D] D,
_ [E] which is the fifth fret of the [C] A string.
And at that point, I'm going to want you [D] to move
your hand up into that position.
[C] So _ [D] that's really the only movement you're needing in this
progression.
Same thing. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ And then back [G] down to that first chord, the G.
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ So let me just play the
groove for you a little bit slow and then I'll bring it up to speed. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ Then up to speed or tempo. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ And that's [Bb] it.
Feel free to add your own little hiccups [Gb] and