Stealer’s Wheel’s Stuck in the Middle has a great bass groove. Here I go beyond just playing it by making a fun and challenging drill out of it! As deceptively simple as that bass line is, this is quite the fretboard challenge! Try it for yourself!
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Video Transcript
This is an awesome bass groove!
[🎵🎵🎵 Ari playing the groove 🎵🎵🎵 ]
What does this groove do? 1 – 1 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 6 -1- 1 – 7 – 2 – 3 – 5 – 6 – 5.
It goes back and forth between the regular major pentatonic and the dominant pentatonic [ 🎵🎵🎵 ]. You can also look at it as a dominant seven chord plus the 2 [ 🎵🎵🎵 ].
Play this groove from the song through the cycle of fifths to the left trying to stay in one area:
[🎵🎵🎵 Ari playing the groove through the cycle 🎵🎵🎵 ]
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