Lessons: Reggae Bass Lesson #5383: How To Make Walking Ska/raggae Lines
How To Make Walking Ska/raggae Lines
by John Weis
Reggae Bass Lesson by John Weis suitable for
Intermediate bassists.
Excerpt:
creating cool flowing lines is simple if you just know a few chords. a pretty simple chord progression is G,E,C,D, all of them major except E (in the key of G the progression would be I,vi,IV,V). first just try walking up root, 3rd, 5th, 3rd, all in quarter notes. for example G would be G,B,D,B. do this with G, E, C, and D.
after you got that flow down, the key to getting a solid founda...(more)