Ray Brown F Blues Transcription

Ray Brown’s Half Position F Blues

Here’s a great excerpt from an old video called ‘Ray Brown Presents the Art of Playing the Bass’. Ray is talking about the importance of foundational skills and having solid sound and time in half position: for non-upright players, that’s the area between the open string and the third fret of the electric bass.

Ray Brown F Blues Transcription

There’s plenty worth stealing here. As always, Ray’s time and touch are impeccable and he makes the bass swing like nobody else before or since. There are plenty of repeated figures throughout the F blues, which gives us reassurance that even the greatest players weren’t constantly reinventing the wheel when they played walking bass:

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