Blues Piano Tutorial - Basslines

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In this lesson I take you through a number of different basslines you can play with your left hand for blues, boogie woogie and rock 'n' roll. We go over simple as well as some more complex riffs and some classics, like Lucille. Some are simple, some are intermediate and a couple are a little more advanced or complex.
You just need to keep practicing them until they are in your muscle memory.
Good luck
Below is a quick recap of the lesson:
Bassline #1:
-----Bb----Bb
C---G--C--G
------E-------E
Bassline #2:
-----Bb----Bb
C---G--G--G
------E-------E
Bassline #3:
G--G--A--A--G--G--A--A
-----C------C-------C------C
Bassline #4:
G--G--A--A--Bb--Bb--A--A
C--C--C--C---C----C---C--C
Bassline #5:
C C E E G G A G
Bassline #6:
C C Eb E G G A G
Bassline #7:
C C(8av) Eb E G G A G
Bassline #8:
C C(8av) Eb E G C A G
Bassline #9:
--------Eb--E--G--G--A--G
C--C--C--C--C--C--C--C
Bassline #10:
---------A------G-----A--G
C--C--F--C--E--C--F--E
Bassline #11:
---------A--------G------A--G
C--C--Eb--C--E--C--F--E
Bassline #12:
G--G------------G--G
C--C--Eb--E--C--C--Eb--E
Bassline #13:
C C(8av) E F Gb G (8av)G G
Bassline #14:
C E G E G
Bassline #15:
C C(8av) E G E G
Bassline #16:
C C(8av) (Eb)E G Eb E G
Bassline #17:
C C E G Bb Bb C(8av) Bb

[@gregsheridan76]

This is such a great video introducing bass lines on piano. I am working my through a mixture of jazz piano curricula, and have been wanting to get a head start on bass lines so I can get my left hand working a little more. This video gave the perfect introduction and variety for me to practice. Thank you for sharing this and helping further develop budding musicians!!!

[@johnohara5054]

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[@WalkThatBass]

+john ohara Thanks, John. Yeah, I completely agree. Much of the content itself is actually quite straight forward, but assembling it all in a step-by-step, logical manner takes quite a bit of time. I'm really glad you found these useful.

[@Joe-xo4yg]

What John said! Thx 🙏🏽

[@cornelius214]

Your channel is a god send! Thank you!

[@vanessachallis2159]

Excellently presented once again - thanks! :)

[@WalkThatBass]

+Vanessa Challis Thanks, Vanessa.

[@submeg5183]

Have to say that after around 6:48, these patterns are straight forward enough to understand, but they would be tricky to play! Great video, learning quite a bit, thank you!

[@fulltiltboogiewoogie]

Great Stuff!!

[@captain_spark]

Hi.. How to play the basslines which have dashes after the notes?

[@captain_spark]

For example, the bassline 4

[@WalkThatBass]

I'm just trying to use the dash lines to line up the notes. It doesn't allow you to use spaces in the description for some reason. Sorry if it's a little confusing. But I show each of the basslines in the video, which shows the timing as well.

[@captain_spark]

Walk That Bass thanks for replying. your tutorials are very informative. thanks for your efforts to make such wonderful tutorials.

[@wisegamer706]

it feels like i cant time the right hand with the base like that. If i dont put a swing on it and just play quarter notes then its no problem but it feels impossible to play the right hand if i play one of the baselines you presented. How do i fix this.

[@daman7387]

Play with a metronome and slowly build up the speed

[@shashwatprateek5521]

Play classical pieces to build hand independence.

[@wisegamer706]

@@shashwatprateek5521 Lol thanks. I wasn't expecting to see this in my notifications today. Btw I can play this now lol.

[@piyushgupta1606]

That sounds in 432hz