The Blues Lesson 2 - Walking Bass
Students will continue to develop their understanding of the blues by listening for the walking bass line in blues songs. Identifying when the 5th chord happens is an easy engaging task for them. Students improve their keyboard skills by learning a simple walking bass line, understanding that walking bass lines use the chord tones. Simple version and challenge version is on this lesson. At this point, I introduce the concept of degrees of a scale to students so they know that they’re using I III and V as a basic walking bass pattern.
Levels of challenge include adding a 7th into the walking bass to make it more interesting, this is included in the lesson. Students should be encouraged to play two handed where possible, taking everything slowly and focusing on the skill, not the amount of bars mastered.
This lesson is 2 of 6 of a complete unit.
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