Songs & Basslines - Music theory for bassists #4 (Primary chords)

In this installment of my "Songs & Basslines" series we will take a look at songs utilizing only the primary chords of a major scale and discuss the five basic bassline building techniques.

Here's a nice bassline with major arpeggios to another classic tune: "Twist & Shout"! 

The version of David Lindley is especacially nice with all the offbeat-arpeggios:

If you like to learn more about utilizing major arpeggios in your basslines, check out my

"Lesson To Go" - Chords & Arpeggios (part 1).

Songs & Basslines - Music theory for bassists #03 (the diatonic triads of the C major scale)

The song "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" by Procol Harum is a wonderful example for the relationship between a major scale and it's diatonic chords. While the bassline is moving stepwise up and down through the C major scale the organ and guitar play almost all of the diatonic chords of the C major scale:

Songs & Basslines - Music theory for bassists #02 (the major scale, part 2)

Here's the second installment of the "Songs & Basslines" series.
The good thing about doing something like this on a blog is, that you can ask or comment if you have any questions, annotations or additions, so feel free to do so :-)