Chords for Easy Country Bassline Lesson - Bass Guitar Lessons - Johnny Cash Inspired

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_ _ _ _ _ [Gb] How's it going everybody?
Brian Rashap here, hanging out with my buddy Marty Schwartz, GuitarJams.com, _
[Bb] _ _ _ right about here.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Marty and I were just playing a little classic country _ _ turnaround _ for you.
I don't know if _ you noticed, Marty _ was here. _
_ He was all around right here, just there.
_ _ And yeah, so we're going to go through and I'm going to show you the awesomeness of simple
country bass lines.
Alright, so here we go.
Pretty easy country _ _ bass line in the key of [C] C. _ _ _ _
Country [Em] guys like that key of C because
[Gb]
on guitar it's a _ _ _ pretty [Bb] _ nice, well-rounded _ tonal _ choice.
So the first note is _ _ C. _ _
That's going to be on the third fret _ [C] of your A string, right there.
And you're just going to go between [Bb] that and [G] the _ G, _ which is the 5 of the C chord, which
gets a little bit too far in there, but that's going to be on the third fret of the [C] E string.
So [G] you're going between [C] these two. _
_ Technically, [G] this is really the same thing you're going to do for every chord, but [C] there's
a little [G] variation in how [C] you're going to actually [G] finger it. _ _ _
_ _ So with _ _ that [G] happening, [C] _ _ _ third fret A, third fret E, _ _ [G] when you get [C] to the [G] _ _ [C] new [G] bar and you
go back, you're going to do a little climb up from that third fret.
So when you do that walk up from the G back [C] to the C, it's going to be at the end of the phrase.
So let me do it once _ and then we'll move on to the next chord and what I actually play.
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
[C] _ _ _ So [Bb] that's going to be your go-to _ _ _ for _ _ leading back into a chord or leading back to a next chord.
So the next chord [C] in that progression [E] from the C [F] _ _ is the F.
_ [Bb]
So for that, what I did is
I walked up the same [E] fashion from the G to the C, but from the C [F] to the F. _
[C] So it'll be
from the third fret on the A string, [D] _ _ open string, _ D string, [E] _ _ second fret D string, [F] _
_ third
fret D [C] string.
_ [D] _ _
[F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ And you can just do the same thing that you did for the C, [F] _ _
[E] but if you listen to that little
[F] groove at the beginning with Marty and I playing, I actually went down to the other F, which
is an octave, which is the first fret of the E string.
So _ _ [C] _ what _
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[Bb] _ _ we [F] did was, [C] _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ _ [A] and again with that walk up _ [B] _ _ [C] _ [G] to [C] C, _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [Ab] and we went to a G, [G] which is the
third fret of the E string.
_ And we just went between that and the fifth fret of the A string.
[D] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ [D] Get ready for that [G] walk up again.
[A] _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Gb] So let me play it once through for you. _
_ And we're going to use the walk up _ as the pickup line to the bass line. _
_ One, [G] two, three.
_ [B] _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [E] _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [B] _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] Cool.
And that's just a little trick.
You can even walk up to the G like I did [G] there. _ _
_ _ [Gb] _ But yeah, enjoy.
See you next time.
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