Jazz Guitar Moving Bass Parts – Part 2
Jazz guitar is more than just playing a few major 7 and minor 7 chords. These chords existed and can be found in many classical pieces and other music forms. I will not in this article attempt to define jazz guitar but I will continue on from what I wrote just under a week ago about moving bass parts . I have taken the previous exercise and added a little more to it. What I have done is broken up the chord triad (three note chord) to seperate the bass part out from the rest of the chord. This type of playing adds a bit more of a bounce to the chord progression.
Take your time with it. For those that have a bit of trouble reading dots the rhythmic pattern is just:
1 + 2 3 + 4 1 + 2 3 + 4 (the + sign equals a half beat)
If you are not used to this style, once you sort it you’ll see it opens up a lot of possibilities in your playing. Let me know how you go with it.
For a printable version click Jazz Guitar Moving Bass Parts Free Tab and Notation
I will write the 3rd part to this article with the next 7 days
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