BLUES BASSLINE

• The groove of a twelve bar blues piece is largely built on the

  bassline

  
• bassline provides a rhythmic feel and a chord structure that is repeated throughout the the piece

  
• bassline is the

  foundation
• The bassline is built on the root note of each chord.

  
• it is possible to play blues piano with a very simple left hand bass just using a single note for each chord

  
• we use broken chords to make the groove more complicated and interesting by adding a new note to the chord

  
• using broken bars in 12 bar blues makes the

  bassline less limited

  
• this gives what to the song

  groove and energy

  
• we can go even further by extending the bassline to a pattern based on the 

  blues scale.