29 Bass RUNS Another interesting way to enhance a Blues fingerpicking solo is to incorporate bass runs. ‘n bass run should be considered as a group of bass notes played in the same way a lick is played on the treble strings. The notes which are chosen to play a bass run are usualy Pemed upon the Minor Pentatonic and Blues scales. The location of these notes, for the keys of A and E, can be found by studying the diagrams on pages 14 and 22. Bass runs aR utilized in the following eight bar Blues progression in the key of E. The next example combines some relatively simple licks played on the treble strings with a bass line that makes full use of bass runs.