Over the weekend I was taught a neat sounding little trick I'd like to explore further..... For example, I was shown to play the A string open, then A string second fret, then the D string open and then go into playing your Dmaj chord. A little scrwing around, and playing this into Dmaj, Cmaj, and into Gmaj sounded "nice".... Was this a form of a walking chord or just a little lick?
Anyone have any additional tricks like this us noobies can try out? I'm guessing there's an endless supply of little things like this to greatly enhance "chord changes" in different situations.....
PLEASE share some of your favorites here :lol:
Well it depends on your take on it - you might percieve it as a little riff, some others might say its a walkdown (or up).
Suggest you do a little research on Johnny Cash. A lot of his songs use quite imaginitive little runs between the chords.
Walk the Line would be a good start.
all the best
Matt
I usually call it a walking bass line. You can hear a more complicated variation of this in Stevie Ray Vaughn's Pride & Joy. This is very common in blues music so also check out some blues songs by SRV, Buddy Guy, Robert Johnson, Eric Clapton, Muddy Waters, etc. along with Johnny Cash.
This is a common technique in bluegrass as well. The April 2006 issue of Acoustic Guitar has a nice article by Scott Nygaard called, Bluegrass Bass Runs. http://www.acousticguitar.com/article/160/160,6875,THEBASICS-1.asp . You'll need the current password which can be obtained by purchasing (or perusing) the June 2006 issue.
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Here's one of my favorite basslines for you to try out. It's for going between a G and an Em.
--3---------------0-------------------
--0---------------0-------------------
--0---------------0-------------------
--0---------------2-------------------
--2---------------2-------------------
--3---3---2---0---0------------------
Walking basslines are a lot of fun and you can do them between virtually any two chords! If you know some theory, try playing hitting the notes on different scales between the two bass notes of the chords...and if not, just try some random notes inbetween and mess around until it sounds good :D
-Jason
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Cool, thanks Jason! This is EXACTLY the type of thing I was hoping for from this post! Cannot wait to give it a try after work, thanks again!
there's a nice simple exercise on this here -
http://www.ezfolk.com/guitar/Tutorials/Bass_Runs/bass_runs.html
shows a few typical runs nice and clearly
hope this helps
Matt
Thanks Matt!
Bob Jessie
