Bass Exercises: Applying Roots To The Blues

Applying Roots To The Blues Exercises

Bass Exercise #1: A Blues Shuffle with Root Notes

This is as basic as it gets with the blues. We're applying the root to each chord using the shuffle rhythm commonly found in the blues. You need to be able to execute this in any key with hardly any thought.

Bass Exercise #2: C Blues with Roots

In this C Blues you are again playing root notes. This blues has a straight 8th note feel meaning evenly spaced eighth note subdivisions. The rhythm used is called a Bossa Nova rhythm.