Bags' Groove, Milt Jackson - guitar tab @ GuitarNick.com - Free guitar lessons

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The following tune is a famous blues of Milt Jackson, the great vibraphonist of the Modern Jazz Quartet. As you can see I made this arrangement not using alternating bass but a continuous bass, which is another possible way of playing guitar in the fingerstyle blues.
The use of continuous bass continuous can play the tunes very articulate and even allows you to improvise a solo over, like a good blues require. The bass played open could cover the notes of the melody and also overlap with each other creating a sound rather confusing, for these reasons it is advisable for this song using the thumbpick and the technique of palm muting. Using this technique the volume of bass is very smooth and at the same time they acquire a deeper stamp and beat the rhythm very well without ever overlap another.

The passage in question is technically very different from the past not only for low but also to continue the development of the melody, in fact here it is on a single note pentatonic scale rather than on chords.

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