08 A Medium Blues Shuffle No Bassmp3wma
Time/size: 3 mins 17 secs/4.54mb
Blues jam track: laid back shuffle (94 beats per minute/bpm)
Backing track instruments: acoustic guitar and drums.
This jam track is from the Play Bass Blues 01 page. If you want to hear the bass line below with the track you can listen to track 8 on the Play Guitar Blues 01 page.
Suggested bass line:
Bass line over the first 2 bars
G|-----------------------------------------------------------
D|--------4--4--5--5--4--4----------4--4--5--5--4--5--4--
A|-----------------------------------------------------------
E|--5--5----------------------5--5--------------------------
Chords
|---A-------------------------A-----------------------------
Bars 3 and 4
G|-----------------------------------------------------------
D|--------4--4--5--5--4--4----------4--4--5--5--4--5--4--
A|-----------------------------------------------------------
E|--5--5----------------------5--5--------------------------
Chords
|---A-------------------------A-----------------------------
Bars 5 and 6
G|--------4--4--5--5--4--4----------4--4--5--5--4--5--4--
D|-----------------------------------------------------------
A|--5--5----------------------5--5--------------------------
E|------------------------------------------------------------
Chords
|---D-------------------------D-----------------------------
Bars 7 and 8
G|-----------------------------------------------------------
D|--------4--4--5--5--4--4----------4--4--5--5--4--5--4--
A|-----------------------------------------------------------
E|--5--5----------------------5--5--------------------------
Chords
|---A-------------------------A-----------------------------
Bars 9 and 10
G|-------------------------------------------------------
D|-------------------------------------------------------
A|--7--7--7--7--7--7--7--6--5--5----------------------
E|------------------------------------2--2--3--3--4--4--
Chords
|---E--------------------------D-------------------------
Bars 11 and 12
G|---------------------------------------------------
D|---------------------------------------------------
A|--------4--4--5--5--6--6--7--5--6--7--7--7--7--
E|--5--5---------------------------------------------
Chords
|---A----------------------------D--Eb-E-----------
The above bass lines are for a full 12 bar blues progression. If you aren't comfortable playing the notes above you can just play the first note of each chord and sit on that to start off with. Then learn to play a bass line using the notes above and start making up your own lines.
