Chords for How to Solo on Bass - Bassics

What I'm going to do is just start off with a simple progression in G minor. _ _ _ _ _
I'm going to show you the chords in the bass.
[Gm] I've got them on my loop pedal here as well.
_ _ _ We've got [Cm] G minor 7, _ C minor [Dm] 7, D minor 7.
[Gm] _ _ It loops just like that.
Just four bars [Cm] over and over like that.
Nothing [Dm] to it. _ _
[Gm] On the bass, if you wanted to play this with your loop station, [Cm] you can go up to your [Dm] 15th
fret, hold [G] on your G up the octave, your F on the D [Cm] string, and your B [Dm] flat _ on the G
string, [Gm] and you get the G minor 7. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Move up, keeping that B [Cm] flat, you're going to [Dm] move your index [Gm] finger down to E flat,
_ _ [Cm] and your middle finger onto C _ [Dm] to get yourself a C minor [Gm] 7.
That's the second chord. _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ You just [Gm] move it up two frets to get your D minor 7.
[Cm] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Am] _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ [Eb] If you've got a loop station, you can loop that on there.
It'll make it a bit [D] easier _ once you have a [Gm] guitar player, right?
_ _ _ So [Eb] some of the soloing basics just start [Dm] with the G minor pentatonic [Bb] scale.
It's one of the easiest ones.
You probably already know it.
[Em] _ [Cm] _ It [Dm] starts with a G, _ _
[Gm] _ _ E flat, [Bb] _ _
[C] C, _ _ D, [D] _ _
F, [F] _ _ and [Gm] G. _ _
_ [Cm] _ As [D] long as you're using those [Cm] notes, no matter [Gm] which octave you're using them in, that's
going to work [Cm] anywhere on your fingerboard.
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ I'm just going to use the notes in random orders here.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Gm] You'll see that I'm adding in the fourth fret there sometimes.
You can add in [F] chromatic passages, that's all it is.
From [Gb] F to [G] F sharp to G, it works. _
_ [Gb] _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] Same with the C, [Bb] C sharp, D.
[Db] _ _ That's actually your [Gm] flat 5 there, the C sharp. _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Db] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ [D] _ That's not to say that [Gm] _ all the other notes are out of _ [Cm]
bounds, but I mean, you know, [G] they
all work a bit in their own little way.
[E] _ _ So it's never hard to try every [Ab] single [Gm] note in it [F] at all.
_ [D] _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Cm] Give it a try.
[D] So that's all there is to [Gm] soloing basics.
That's all there really is to it there.
You've just got to find out what key it's [Cm] in.
We're in G minor.
[D] Use that pentatonic [Gm] scale to go with it.
If it's major, you use your major scale to go [Cm] with it, et cetera.
_ [D] So any questions, just give me an [Gm] email. _ _ _ _ _ _