Chords for Beginner Walking Bass Lesson | How To Play Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix Solo Bass Line

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Today we're going to be talking about
walking bass lines, chromatic scales, and we're going to do it all with the awesome Jimi Hendrix song, Hey Joe.
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using the classic Jimi Hendrix song, Hey Joe. _ _
We're going to talk about the solo section, the interlude section.
So once the song goes into the interlude, the bass player starts doing this really cool
chromatic bass line.
And so when we're talking about walking bass,
it really is adding movement to your bass lines, right?
Not just hitting a root note, but adding notes _
_ before and after that to create movement within your bass line.
One of the ways to do that is with a
chromatic movement.
And a chromatic scale, or the chromatic movement, is just when you're moving half a step up.
A chromatic scale is actually technically all 12 notes on the fretboard.
So if we're looking at something _ _ _ _ _ _ like
an A, I can play the A pentatonic scale, _
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but if I'm starting with A on a chromatic scale, it might be _
_ so all four of those notes.
So _ _ the _ _ _ _ nice thing about the chromatic scale is that nothing is off-limits.
And so what's happening in this bass line is you'll see that
the actual chord being played, what's happening is that the bass player is walking _
_ up to that _ root note in a chromatic fashion.
So for example, when we go to the A, _ _ _ _ _
there it is, tuners acting a little funny.
There we go.
When we go to the A, instead of just playing A,
_ _ it's a walk to the A
chromatically. _ _ _
_ And so you're gonna see through this bass line how you can use this type of motion and this type of
_ _ _ chromatic movement to create bass lines on your own.
That you can, any root note, you can
walk up to that root note or even walk down
before we get into it here.
_ So,
_ now the song doesn't go like this, but I'm just giving you an example here of what you could do.
So if we're still talking about that A note, we could do, _ _ _ but what if we wanted to go the other way?
We could do, _ _ _
_ right, so if you're playing a song and you want to add some movement and you're going to the A and it makes sense,
you know, especially if the guitar player is coming from say, you know, the C, you could do, _ _ _ _ _ _ _
and now you could
chromatically move.
So once again, chromatically just meaning every semitone or every half step on the bass.
So let's jump into the actual bass line we're going to learn today and
see how he did it.
So the actual progression is C, G, D, A, and E.
So we're going to start on the C and
the G is right here.
So what you're going to see is we're going to move or walk to the G.
So instead of just doing,
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we're going to do C, open E, _
_ _ 1, 2, 3, _ and that gets us to the G.
_ And from the G, we need to get to the D,
which is down here.
So in the same fashion, we're going to go, _ _ _ _ _ _
right, so we have the D, the root note, and then the three [E] prior semitones.
So that's essentially the pattern for this.
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_ So now, if we're going to,
from here, we need to get to the A.
So with that same pattern,
here's the A right here, and so that same pattern, the three semitones before,
_ _ _ we can map it out without even having to look at the tablature on the screen.
We just, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and that gets us to the A, _ _ _ and then we need to get to the E.
_ So we can do the same thing.
So we know we need to start on the fourth fret. _ _ _ _ _
_ Okay, so
let's do that whole thing. _
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Now, that is a great line to really start your walking bass line career with.
It's also a great blues rock line, so if you're out jamming, you can use that with almost any chord progression.
_ Now, what you'll see is from there, just to finish off this Hey Joe line, so after he hits the E,
_ he hits that two more times, _ _ _ and then it's this
7 on the E string,
5 on the A string, _ and you do that twice, _ _ _ _ _ and then back to that E, _ _ and you'll see there's some little, _ _ _ _ _
okay, you can do a little hammer on there, _ _ _ _ and then you can start over.
So you can do, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ and that is
really all there is to it.
An awesome way to start learning walking bass.
So there you have it.
Hey Joe, Jimmy Hendrix, a great lesson in chromatic scales walking bass.
Really, really cool.
At any time, make sure you can just pause the video when the tab is at the bottom, and you can just
take a screenshot of that or whatever you need to do if you need that tab there. _
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