Chicago Blues Bass Fills: Spice Up Your Turnarounds (Part 2)
Add bass turnaround fills to a 12-bar Chicago blues groove. Jason Zac explores chromatic climbs, blues or pentatonic ideas, slides and leaving space, then demonstrates options over the final bars. Jason Zac, our Bass Faculty presents a lesson on 12 bar blues in the style of Chicago Blues. Part 1 builds the bass groove from the root, octave, flat seventh and fifth, with a triplet variation. Part 1 shows the entire pattern over 12 bars while Part 2 focusses on fills at the turnaround section. Part 1: Chicago Blues Bass Groove ➡️ https://youtu.be/A-0Zo2x0sRs #ChicagoBlues #BluesBass #BassFills Chapters 00:00 Turnaround fills for Chicago blues bass 00:17 Locate the final bars of the twelve-bar cycle 00:38 Chromatic, blues and pentatonic ideas 00:48 Leave space for the drummer 01:05 Start the example from the V chord 01:30 Slide into a fill 01:46 Follow V–IV–I and add your own fill 02:07 Full twelve-bar sequence and fill demonstrations
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