Bass Runs
As well as the alternating bass style, another common feature of Country piano playing is the use of bass runs with the left hand when moving between chords. The following examples show some typical uses of bass runs in the key of G. All the notes are derived from the G major scale. Don’t forget to try out some bass runs in the key of C too.
Here is a new arrangement of a song you learned earlier in the book, featuring the use of bass runs. If you have trouble co-ordinating both hands, practice each part separately and then play both parts together slowly and count aloud as you play.
Class Sessions
1- Other Keys, 16th Notes, Putting it all Together
2- New Rhythms, Chords and Sounds
3- The 12 Bar Blues
4- The Triplet
5- Swing Rhythms
6- Blue Notes
7- 3rd Intervals
8- Seventh Chords
9- Using Seventh Chords
10- Basic Country Sounds
11- The Key of G
12- Bass Runs
13- The Major Pentatonic Scale
14- Sixteenth Notes
15- Grace Notes
16- Putting it all Together
17- Notes on the Piano
18- Inversions and Arpeggios
19- Using Chords for Accompaniment
20- Chord Inversions
21- Left Hand Variations
22- Alternating Bass Style
23- Eighth Note Rhythms
24- Two Handed Accompaniment
25- INTRODUCTION
26- The Chords C, F and G
27- The C7 Chord
28- The C Major Chord
29- D Major Chord Inversions
30- Broken Chords
31- Syncopation
32- Enharmonic Notes
33- The Shuffle
34- C Major Chord Inversions
35- Chord Charts
36- Easy Chord Table
37- The G Major Chord
38- The Blues Scale in G
39- The D7 Chord
40- G Major Chord Inversions
41- The F Major Chord
42- The F7 Chord
43- F Major Chord Inversions