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By Andrea Fascetti

Jazz Improvisation for Bass: Chromatic Approaches Lines In Action Part 4
Hi My Friends and Colleagues,

I hope you have been appreciating the improvisation techniques and lessons shared here in Bass
Musician magazine. I want you to remember that this is a long course about the art of improvisation,
so stay tuned if you want to increase your skills about this topic.

In past lessons (Click for previous lessons), we have worked over chords, bass fingerboard, ear
training and chromatic approaches, plus various suggestions on technique and transcriptions. I
think that if you have been practicing correctly, you will have increased your musical skills.

So keeping with our lessons on chromatic approaches’, which I learned from my teacher Charlie
Banacos and adapted it to bass using some of my personal ideas, in this lesson we will go back
to the half-diminished chord (in key of c : C Eb Gb Bb), which is the fourth chord of this group of

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lessons.

In the past I used only one type of chromatic approach, but now you can try to use more combinations
of notes. In upcoming lessons we will go on to use this kind of line over all chord types, so you’ll
adapt the notes to various chord tones.

It’s time for usual homework assignment: