From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs
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Walking bass: Part 1
From the course: Acoustic Guitar Lessons: 2 Scales, Walking Bass, Hammer-Ons, and Pull-Offs
Walking bass: Part 1
- The next thing we're gonna talk about, we're gonna move right into enhancing rhythm style. Again, we've said before, bluegrass rhythm on the guitar is such an important part of the music. And it's important for anybody that plays any of the lead stuff and plays the tunes, the single note flatpicking. You can't stress enough the importance of solid rhythm playing. And so the next step, we've covered the basic boom-chuck strum and we've also covered chord patterns. In the last chord theory lessons we discussed, we showed why the one, four, and five, how they exist, how you find them. And it's all based on the scale theory of naming the notes with numbers, right? And so, the way this is going to apply to what we're gonna do now is enhance and the way we're gonna apply the number concept now is with walking bass runs. And if your not familiar what that is think to old time music. Think to when you see Jimmy Martin play and he's strumming, but he's also, you know, plays these great notes…
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