The old-time song “Milwaukee Blues,” recorded by North Carolina singer/banjo player Charlie Poole in 1930, is a great song for working on more of the two-beat bass runs covered in the Bass Runs lessons. In this lesson, Scott shows you how to create more elaborate bass runs by substituting two eighth notes for one of the two quarter notes in the two-beat bass runs. “Milwaukee Blues” is in the key of C, so Scott shows you bass runs that go from C to G and then G to C, first by playing two eighth notes instead of the first quarter note, and then by playing two eighth notes instead of the second quarter note. He starts by making sure you know the C major scale, and then shows you a number of C–G and G–C bass runs.
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"Bass Runs" (Available to subscribers)
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"Milwaukee Blues" (Available to subscribers)
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