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Walking bass: jazz blues in Db

Nathaniel School of Music, 2026

Key
Db
Form
12-bar jazz blues
Level
5

A quarter-note bass line: the root on each new chord, chord tones in between, and a half-step or scale-step approach into the next root.

Chords: Db7 Gb7 Db7 Abm7 Db7 Gb7 Gdim7 Db7 Bb7 Ebm7 Ab7 Db7 Bb7 Ebm7 Ab7

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