 Hi guys, so welcome to part 2. In this part, we are going to take the same chord progression which we did earlier and now add a bass line to it in the left hand. So before I introduce the bass line, let's just look at what we've done already to make the right hand very interesting and very human sounding, if you will. We took the chords and added our dynamics with, you know, legato, staccato embellishments or using volume, simple volume and then try to emulate the drummer and imagine very simple drum grooves to kind of figure out where we play amidst all that. And if you haven't already, do check out part 1. It is very important before you get to part 2 because part 2 we are going to develop hand independence. We are going to look at a bass line. There's going to be a lot of very different kinds of work but based on the chords developed in part 1. So the chords again, C major, C 7th over E, F major over F and then F minor over A flat bass, okay, F minor slash A flat. Okay, now the left hand in the earlier part was just holding roots. So a great way to make any chord pattern sound unique is to just kind of bring about a bass line and kind of also look at the bass line as its own melody. You should obviously have a melody over these chords like. Okay, but that melody will work great, I guess with a vocal line with lyrics but why can't the bass also have its own melody which we officially now end up calling as a bass line or yeah, a bass line if you will. So I'll play you the bass line and then we are going to learn that and learn it really well. If you haven't already do keep your keyboards with you or maybe a notebook or something like that. So you can learn along in this lesson. Okay, I'm going to play it and then break it down and then we are going to learn it together. Okay, so over each chord I'm kind of playing weaving in like this melody. That's a nice thing to do before you actually learn it, try to isolate the bass line and sing it. Even if you don't play it with me, try to sing it along. Let's do it together. Keep the time feel going which is 8th note swing, right? One and two and three and four and one. That's pretty much the whole groove very swing 8th notes or shuffle feel that one and two and three. So that's the underlying time feel of this entire lesson. So you go pump to DD flat E C E F F G A flat B flat C. Okay, let's break that down a one two three four one Now, if you're a player who does not have 88 keys, a quick trick for you guys would be to transpose the 61 key keyboard or the smaller key range keyboard to maybe minus 12. Minus 12 will take it down an octave. So what was once this will now become this, you don't need those extra keys. You can just transpose it down and I guess the samples will react accordingly. So you go, don't quite like that sound. I prefer the deeper option. Okay, so now while you do this, you're going to need to play the same chords which we learned all through this series so far, these ones with the bass line. So I'm going to try and break it down as best as possible. You can also see the notation which we've given, which you can even download on our Patreon. So do head over there. It'll also be a great support to our channel. And coming back to the bass, if you count it, you can actually bring about where the hits are, you know, with respect to the eighth note time feel as we call it. That's one and two and three and four and so it's totally like a four bar bass line because it's a four bar chord sequence, one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and three, right? Also observe that there are two hits which are staccato while all the others are legato. That also gives it its own personality. So you go one and two and three and the first hit will always be staccato. Okay. One and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and four and one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one. So you have to now do that with the right hand, something like this, F major, F minor, C major, C bass, E bass, F major, F minor, okay, so you have to figure out a way to play that and this together. So I would suggest start with the roots first, staccato, staccato bass, okay, just keep that going, whenever you've got that, bring in some legato, keep the staccato right hand, so it's sort of legato left, staccato right. Now slowly but surely, just isolate that, so ultimately what a bass is always doing, it's respecting the roots of each chord. It's not going to go away from the roots at the strong beats of the bar, that would imply beats number one, yeah beat one basically, where the chords change, which is generally at beat one. So the bass will always respect the root or the bass note of the chord, you know, but it can have its fun at the other beat, so that's exactly what's happening, we're doing C, D, D flat, E, so it's a passing chromatic climb from the D going to the E flat and then E and E is the landing of the C seventh over E chord, which is the second chord. Let's do that again, just do only that, okay, now I need to approach F, how do we approach F, I'll just show you, okay, again, okay, with the chords and then what is that, that's F minor or rather F major approaching F minor and then that going back to C. Let's just get F major to F minor, okay, just that, just that, quite a bit of independence, right, ending, again, so now back to the whole equation with everything now, let me try and sing the bass notes, focus on your legato staccato interplay, don't forget your right hand articulation, right, which you learned in the last lesson, so right now I'm approaching the snare drum hits accordingly, so at the 2 and the 4, so slightly trickier, right guys, so before I conclude, I'm just gonna just play it without talking for maybe a few seconds at the end of the video, so you could follow along or instead of you know, just scrolling before and after you can just go to that point of the video and try to play along and I'll sign off here, thanks for watching the lesson and don't forget to head over to the next part, part 3 after you finished part 1 and part 2 because it's just a series, we're gonna continue it and eventually it's gonna hopefully give you the resources or the tools to make your chord playing really stand out from the crowd, like I said at the very beginning, if there are 100 people who can do this stuff, I want you to be in the top 10, okay and don't forget to subscribe to our channel, download my handwritten notes on Patreon as a PDF, it's ready for you and what else can you do, like, share, comment, whatever you want to do to help our channel grow, I'm now gonna not talk and just play this whole thing with the bass line with some right hand articulations as slow as I can and hopefully you've learned something from this chapter.