Chords for Walking Bass Lines With 12 Bar Blues

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Hey out there all you little four string pluckers
How's it going?
This is Colin Daniel from riffninja.com
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_ Okay, hey, I got it right man.
Sometimes it takes a lot of practice to get that right, you know
I'm always getting in trouble for that.
Hey _
This is 12 bar on the bass man.
One of the most fun things to play on the bass
_ It's really awesome
You can play it for hours space out in your bedroom drive your mother nuts because she doesn't understand
Why are you repeating the same thing over so many times go mom?
I gotta do it man.
It's for the chicks, right?
All right _
This is really simple.
It's one four five
I'm gonna just take one 12 bar if you if you checked out my lesson before on the on the major the most abused
Major bass walk it was one three four and five, right?
_ _ See that [D]
now we're just gonna take it and move it into a 12 bar pattern
Okay, I'm gonna do a real real famous common 12 bar.
It's gonna start with one bar G
So I'm gonna go one [B] two, [C] three [D] four, that's one bar, right?
[G] So every time you do [B] that _ [D] with the [G] account or not, that's the that's a full bar
Okay, and now we're gonna go so here's here's the layout 12 bar is in three four bar phrases
The first four bar phrase is one bar G
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[C] one bar [E] C
_ _ [G] Back to one [B] bar G [C] two _ _ [B] _ _ _
[D] _ bars right four all together now.
Okay again [G] one bar G
_ _ [D] _ one [E] bar C
_ [F] _ [G] _ _ [B] Back to the G for [G] another bar.
That's two bars all together
[C] Okay, that's your first four bar phrase right one bar G one bar C two bars G first four bar phrase
Second four bar phrase two bars to see okay, so
Two _ [Am] _ _ _
[F] _ [G] bars of G _ _ _
You can [B] write this down if [D] you can't remember it then you go over it again the second time
_ last four bars D _
[G] one bar
[Am] _ _ [E] C one bar [G] and
Here a very cool closing riff for you with just a little added a little bonus for you being
Such troopers to hang in for this and that's right here
_ [B] _ [G] Instead of going [B] one three four and [Gm] five we go one three [C] four
[C#] _ [C#m] Augmented fourth like the chromatic pass [D] note five and
then [C] close [D] and
_ [C] that's four
[C#] _ _ [D] chromatic pass note five
[G] Again watch _ [B] that's the closing [C] riff
[C#] the last two bars
[C] _ _ _
You like that.
[G] Oh, yeah, me too.
I like that a lot.
Okay now.
We'll put it together
Here we go one [B] bar G _ [C] _ [D] _ _ [E] one bar C
[G] Two _ [B] bars the G.
That's our first four [B] [C] bar phrase starting the [E] second phrase two [F] bars of C
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_ _ [C] Back to two bars [D] the [G] G one more [B] bar [Cm] now.
We're gonna go up to the [D] D
[F#] To _ [G] _
[C] the C last two bars [G] are closing riff remember with the [B] chromatic [C] passing note
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[G] Try it again
_ [B] _ [C] Here's the [D] G _
[G] _ [E] Oops one two three four try it again.
[B] [C] Here's the G
_ [E] Here's the C.
That's [F] two bars.
[G] We've got two more left on the G. _ _ _
_ [B] _ [C] _ _ _ [E] Here's the C for [F] two [G] bars
_ [C] _ _ [F] back [G] to the G [B] two bars
[D] _ _ [G] _ Here [D] comes the one bar of the five.
That's the D
[C] _ four C
[F] _ _ [G] _ [B] one [C] is G [C#] close
[D] _ _ _ _ All right
[N] All right, all you have four string freaks out there get on it hurry up.
I want you to get real smooth at it smooth slick
_ Cool be cool be cool.
You're a bass player all right
Colin Daniel from riff ninja.com signing out till next week or till next year depending on
When you want to see me again alright.
See you later _ _ _ _
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