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Chromatic Approaches For Bass Players: Part 4

Major Triads - Double Chromatic Approach From Below

Hey everyone,

Welcome to part 4 of this series covering chromatic approaches to triads! In this lesson we’re going to stick with our major triads and start looking at approaching the chord using double chromatic approach.

Double chromatic means that we’re approaching the chord tones from two half steps (in order), and I would argue that this is a CRUCIAL piece of harmonic vocabulary to nail down and (as i’ll show you in some future bass line breakdowns), they are EVERYWHERE!

Without further ado we’re going to look at a couple of useful exercises to develop basic fluency and an example bass groove. As always, the PDF and the backing track i’ve used can be downloaded below!

Chromatic Approaches Pt.4 - Basic

Chromatic Approaches Pt.4 - Track

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