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Playing Jazz Bass Chords
Before we start exploring more jazz chords let's focus on ways you can play chords on your bass guitar, and ways of playing chords in jazz music.
Listen to the next sound example and try playing it from sheet music or bass tabs.
This first bar is a typical bass line or riff, the second is a similar chord, but the notes of the chord are mixed. The third is a typical guitar style chord and the last is a similar chord, but it use a technique that is more useful for playing bass chords are harmonies.
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Jazz Bass Scales Basics
Music scales are the building blocks of any music style. No matter if you play blues, rock, alternative, pop, metal, techno, dance, country or jazz, scales are the basis of any song. In some music sty
Jazz Song Structure and Form: Start to End
Instead of trying to explain how a jazz song works let's have a look at a possible song structure of a jazz song. Some of the concepts should already be familiar.
Jazz Chord Progressions: Notation Basics
To be able to understand and communicate about chords and chord progressions a special notation system is used to describe chords without know the scale.
Jazz Bass Chord Progressions: Notation Basics
To be able to understand and communicate about chords and chord progressions a special notation system is used to describe chords without know the scale.
Playing Jazz Bass Scales: A Minor Scale
This next bass sheet music and tabs show how a normal minor scale, in this case A minor, is played on bass guitar. This is called a standard position. Try learning and playing this position on bass. <
Playing Jazz Bass Scales: C Major Scale
This next bass sheet music and tabs show how a normal major scale, in this case C Major, is played on bass guitar. This is called a standard position. Try learning and playing this position on bass. <
Jazz Song Structure and Form
Understanding and playing jazz is a lot easier if you know some of the basics. The basics include:
Scales
Chords
Instruments
Some history
Style
Sound
Form and Structure
In
Advanced Jazz Bass Scales: Mixolydian Bebop Scale
The mixolydian bebop scale is one of the most popular jazz bass scales. As explained in the previous lesson the bebop scale is a modified mixolydian scale. It is sometimes also called the Bop Scale
Advanced Jazz Bass Scales: Bebop Scales
Bebop scales are an important part of jazz and jazz music.
A bebop scale is created by adding either:
Advanced Jazz Bass Scales: Major Bebop Scale
Let's try the bebop major scale next.
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