Let’s try something with a little more rhythmic interest. It’s always useful to practice working in different areas of the instrument: This fill starts on the high A at the 7 th fret of the D string which expands our vocabulary a little. When improvising a bass line through a chord progression, it’s unlikely you’ll always be using the same notes on the same frets. This is a very simple way of applying the chord tones in a bass fill: This first bass fill simply works up and down the A7 arpeggio from our low A at the 5 th fret of the E string. Click Here For More Information! Bass Fill #1 You’ll learn the construction of EVERY chord you’ll ever encounter, how to view them over the entire neck of the bass and how to apply them in your basslines, fills and solos. If you need any help understanding chord tones or how they relate to the bass fingerboard, be sure to check out the Chord Tone Essentials course. For this lesson we’ll just venture out a few notes, both above and below, to give us a little more real estate to play with: We can play those notes anywhere on the fingerboard. Our fill is over the A7 chord so we’re going to use the notes of the A7 chord: A C# E G ![]() In this lesson we’re just going to start really simple by using the basic chord tones for our fills. That’s going to lead us back into Tonic Chord (Dmaj7) giving us a fill at the end of a predictable four bar sequence. ![]() We’re going to play a bass fill over the A7 chord. In terms of the general bass line, I’m playing a simple comp pattern on the root notes around the 5 th to 7 th fret area:
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