How To Survive Your First Blues Jam On Bass || Five Top Tips (No.168)

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In this video I give you five top tips to help you survive your first Blues jam night. If you are a bass player and want to get some inside knowledge on playing Blues then check out the lesson. The main areas I look at in the lesson are:

1. Learning the 12-Bar Blues progression plus the 8-bar and 16-Bar Blues
2. 15 common Blues standards that are great to learn
3. Typical Blues intros, turnarounds, and ending
4. How to survive playing in a Blues jam
5. Jam night etiquette

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Timestamp:
0:00 - How to survive your first Blues Jam on bass
0:43 - Tip 1: Learn the Blues song forms including the 12-Bar Blues
4:12 - 12-Bar Blues bass line with root notes
6:10 - 12-Bar Blues progression with bass riff
8:51 - Tip 2: 15 popular Blues Jam night songs
9:56 - Tip 3: Learn common Blues intros, turnarounds and endings
13:57 - Tip 4: Use your ears at a jam night!
14:50 - Tip 5: Blues Jam etiquette

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