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The Joe Pass thing is fun. I'm no master at it, but
I can generally play figured bass lines on my guitar for most jazz standard
charts, and then fill in the comping with chords at the same time. If I
recall correctly, I basically focused on learning how to pay figured bass lines
first....just be able to take any chart and play it as if you were playing bass,
but do so with the flesh of your thumb. Get that down first. Then, once you have
those patterns internalized, start crafting all the various types of chord
voicings (minor 7, major 7, dominant 7, etc) that correspond with the
chords that you would ordinarily see on the first beat of a measure, or the
first and third beats of a measure (if you have two chords per measure), but
craft the chords so that you can play them in bar chord fashion, and on the
upbeat (the "and") of the first and third beats of each measure, by plucking
them with your fingers. For example, if you are playing Bb minor blues,
your figured bass line for the first measure could be Bb, C, C#, D on
the sixth fret (beats 1, 2, 3, and 4), first string, but play the Bb while
baring the 6th fret with your first first finger, and plucking strings 3,
4, and 5 on the upbeat (and) of the first beat, creating a minor 7th chord. Do
this for the IV chord, and I-VI-II-V turn-around and you have it
made.
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