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Lessons: Basics Bass Lesson #44: Approach Tones

Approach Tones
by Chris Tarry
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Basics Bass Lesson by Chris Tarry suitable for Intermediate bassists.
Excerpt:  A good guide for creating a basic walking bass line is by using approach tones. Generally, when we look at a chord progression we want to place the roots/chord tones on beats one and three and approach tones to the roots/chord tones on beats 2 and 4. <p> Check out the progression below. I have a chart that reads 2 chords per bar in the key of C.<p> It's <b>Cmaj7 A-7 D-7 G7</b><p> ...(more)


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