How to Expand & Develop Your Bass Lines #2 (L#33A)

In this lesson, we continue working on developing & expanding bass lines over John Mayer's "Perfectly Lonely". If you haven't seen the first tutorial of this series on expanding & developing your bass lines, please check it out and then come back to this one.

So, if you remember, the tune is basically a 4-chord sequence: C Major / F Major / D minor / G7. In the first lesson, we began using the roots (duh!), then adding the 5ths and then the 3rds --which can be Major or minor.

In this second lesson, I'm talking about "targeting the notes chromatically", i.e. targeting the 5ths chromatically and then targeting the 3rds chromatically. Of course you can also target the roots in the same way! Sounds confusing on "paper"? Then, watch the vid and you'll see it's actually quite simple and sounds pretty cool!

You may also want to watch my lesson on targetting chord tones chromatically.

Other lessons in the series

How to expand and develop your bass lines #1How to expand and develop your bass lines #3