In this free bass guitar video lesson by Tommy Vickery you will learn how to play a few simple bass lines. We will be playing over track 29, Slow Blues in E, from the Let's Jam! for Bass. The actual track features a guitar chord progression switching between E7, A7, and B7 chords. For this lesson however, we will be play over a loop of just the E7 chord. In future lessons we will learn how to play these patterns over other chords.
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Below is the tab for our first pattern. Here is the loop of an E7 jam track.
Here is our second blues bass line
And now our third pattern
Here is the fourth bass pattern we'll try
This is the last bass line we're going to play over an E chord
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| R&B Lines | Finger Funk 1 |
| R&B Lines 2 | Finger Funk 2 |
| R&B Lines 3 | Finger Funk 3 |
| R&B Lines 4 | Finger Funk 4 |
| R&B Lines 5 | Finger Funk 5 |
| R&B Lines 6 | Finger Funk 6 |
