Filthy Bass Groove Deconstruction + Expanding Your Vocabulary (L#170)

If you’re anything like me, every now and again you just want to learn a good ol’ dirty sounding groove that makes you wanna say… “Ooof”…

Well if today is one of those day’s for you, you’re in the right place!

As well as teaching you a great bass line that will make anyone in their right mind get their groove on, I’m also going to demonstrate a couple of great bass harmonics that you can use over static dominant chords immediately.

I wanna give you the “Ooof factor”!

This groove is based around an E dominant 7th style vamp, and both of the licks include the minor 3rd. Now if you know anything about dominant chords you’ll know that they are an extension of the major triad, i.e. the minor 3rd is essentially a wrong note - but, in this style of groove it still works! In fact it does more than work, it sounds fantastic and gives the bass line that real bluesy style sound.

I incorporate these types of lines and runs within my grooves as they’re a great way of expanding of the dominant 7th sound, and in-turn give you more options when grooving and soloing over static dominant chords.

As always, see you in the shed…

Scott :)