5 great sounding blues bass lines. All in the key of A. Be sure to read the full accompanying tab at: http://betweenthelicks.com/blues-guitar/blues-bass-lines Don't forget to check out http://betweenthelicks.com for more lessons every other day

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Everybody, this is Brian Hellmann from the betweenthelakes.com. I am going to teach a couple of baselines today and we are really going to stay in the key of A today so, do not worry about changing keys so, we are going start off first with the most simple one. This is the most simple blues base and you can get and that just sits on the root of the chord and just place out a shuffle fills so here we go. Just like that. It is kind of boring, move on to D. Give a lot of room for stuff to go on above it. And that is really the bassist job to leave room, but keep the foundations on up to the A, B, back to the A. And when starting over you just do the same thing and that is pretty much the easiest one you can do. Sometimes it easy to get lost in it but for the most part, it is pretty simple. You just stay on one note. Probably the most popular blues baseline is definitely the root, the third and the fifth and it sounds like this. Now we went to that fourth chord the D. Same pattern. Back down to the I chord for the A. The E or the 5 chord and D or the 4 chord and back to A. In starting over do the exact same pattern. Now that one is pretty popular, you will see that a lot in a many blues styles but another one we could do is the drop blues and that one has exact same fills of four note pattern just like that classic blues we just play second ago. But it is dropping according to its name, it is quite accurate. It just drops in the baseline. So here we go, it goes like this. Going from the root, the flat sound, the 6 and the 5, now we are going to go up to the E. Now going up to that A, D, I am using the pattern but I try to start over again. That one also is pretty simple. It is a pretty pattern there one two. You will find that one they place but there is some stuff in between but the basic outline is the same, they have a little and know a lot of Stevie Ray songs, they come straight from there because there is such classic line and he knew it that is why he play them. So, we are going to BB King kind of style and this is kind of a slow minor but it is a straight fill without that shuffle. And when we are staying minor but it is going to be, it will going to be stay in A but we are going to go minor keys. So here we go, it goes like this. D, it really does not matter what you play at those notes. Going to the A. The D, back to the A again. So, that one is a pretty Pablo one, I want to play that a little fast and little precaution kin of stuff and then you do not have to do that, you can always slow it down according ti whatever style you want. So, another part, you want to speed it up though, it is the bouncing blues. And this one follows this pretty pattern filler or pattern and it is pretty easy but as you speed up, it gets a little tough and it will wear your hand out so, you want to practice this one. So here we go. This is a bouncing blues once again and A. Is that a familiar fill to you? Back to the A. E there, David Long: there back to A, to finish it awesome, just start all over again. So there are four basic lines and that fifth one which was just played in a root over and over again basically with 5 lines for you to use. To spice up some of most stuff that you do and you can always mix them up and get the style that you want or the effect you want depending on where you at in the song, if you want a little more color tone, you would use () before you would use (), but if you want something more driving, you might want to stiff with that or if you want something that really kind of feels you know bouncing happy (). Only use that one if you want something minor (), use that one. It just depends on what you want so, just pick those out, practice those and give them a shot you know, practice makes perfect so keep going, get that hand use to play a lot of notes because that was base does, it has to be right on the money so, thanks for watching my lesson, there will be more coming up so you have a goodnight.