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Guitar Lab: 100 Walking Blues Bass Line Formulas, Vol. 2

More Ways to Master Walking Blues: Quarter-Note Groove, Guide-Tone Craft, and Ear Training

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Guitar Lab: 100 Walking Blues Bass Line Formulas, Vol. 2
Brad Carlton

Brad Carlton

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blues, blues-rock

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About this course

Guitar Lab: 100 Walking Blues Bassline Formulas, Vol. 2 helps you build a practical vocabulary of quarter-note walking lines for dominant-blues progressions. You’ll explore one-bar patterns across multiple fretboard positions, along with simple shell-voicing comping ideas you can drop between beats. The course also covers key technical fundamentals—tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence—while reinforcing clear, no-jargon harmony and ear training to help you recognize blue-note color tones and guide-tone movement. Most importantly, you’ll learn to turn these patterns into real music by developing creative variations that move fluidly through swing, shuffle, Texas blues, funk, reggae, and Latin grooves.

What you'll learn

  • Apply bass-style fingering techniques to guitar
  • Apply proper fingering (1st-4th-1st-2nd fingers) for this bass line
  • Construct a bass line using the 1-8-3-b7 guide tone pattern
  • Understand how to view 4-beat phrases as pairs of notes
  • Understand when to use four-finger vs. three-finger approaches
Release date: 11/01/2025 • 1h 31m runtime
late beginnerintermediatelate intermediateacoustic guitarguitarelectric guitarlickspracticejamming
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Sample lessons
1 b7 6 5
1 b7 6 5
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What's included

24 lessons • 1 charts

100 Walking Blues Bass Line Formulas Vol. 2
Hi, I’m Brad Carlton. This is Volume Two of 100 Walking Blues Bassline Formulas. We’re going to keep moving over the dominant family of chords. You’ll learn how to apply the flat-three-to-three move, along with some principles using chord scales, logic, motifs, themes and variations, and fingering techniques.

You’ll also learn how to really study — and I’ll share a few old stories that may or may not be true, but hopefully you’ll get something out of them. Seriously though, I’m going to give you some insight into being a musician: the challenges you’ll face, how to approach your practice, and more. So, you’re getting more than just blues loops here.

Grab your guitar, and let’s play some blues riff formulas.
1 b7 6 5
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
1 b7 5 6
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
1 b7 5 3
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
1 b7 3 5
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
1 b7 b3 3
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
1 8 5 3
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.

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11/26/25

Learn to be a better Musician

Brad is a prolific instructor. His courses are information from the wide view right down to the fine point. This course might turn you into a bass player as well as a better musician. Thanks Brad another great course.

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