This lesson will show you how to play a walking bass line accompanied by little chords. This is a 12 bar blues progression in Bb with a swing feel to it.
To play this, you will use your thumb (P) to play the bass line and your index (I) and middle (M) fingers to pluck the chords.
Work on this slowly. Once you have learned it, work on speed and also try to interpret it differently.
The fingerings indicated above and below the tab represents how I feel most comfortable playing this progression. I suggest that you start with these fingerings but modify them to suit your own style if you find them too awkward.
TIP: Whenever you see 2 notes together in this progression, like the 6 and 7 on top of each other in the first bar, think of those notes plus the note just before it as a chord. Learn these chords and the progression becomes much easier.
Click on the diagram for an MP3 audio example.
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