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So now that we have some hip voicing?s going on, we're going to focus on some bass lines
now, and in the last segment I showed you some simple bass lines where you just outline
one, three, five, seven, one, three, five, seven, one, and I'm just doing E flat minor,
A flat seven, D flat major. Two minor, E flat minor, A flat seven, your five-seven, to your
one major. Now if you're getting a little bored with that, what you can do is you have
this start note and an end note. So I have - start on E flat, and I have four notes
to get to A flat, so I have a couple of ways. I can go, one, two, three, four, one. I threw
in some chromatic notes, right, that's okay. Two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one.
Or I can jump over. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four,
one, two, three, four, one, three. Again, using some chromatic notes isn't a bad thing.
Like if you just walk up from D flat major , D flat to D flat, and use what's called
the bebop scale, where you have a seven note scale, right, but the problem is you got to
walk eight beats. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one. So I had to play D
flat twice. So if just insert one chromatic note, it's gold. Again, the key is landing on the root of the
chord you're playing, on the downbeat. And how you get to that root is completely and
entirely up to you.