Building walking basslines - Approach notes complications

[OnlyJerry]

Hello fellow TBers,

I'm going through Building Walking Basslines by Ed Friedland right now. It's a fantastic book, and I've learned alot in a few days. Right now the book is covering chromatic approach notes, where I have come to a slight halt.

Please take a look at the attachment before reading on.

In the first bar(F7 chord) the lower approach note to the fifth note is a natural B, since the fifth is a C note. After playing the fifth the illustration tells me to play the upper chromatic approach note, which would be a C#/Db note. But here the illustration shows a B note(same as lower approach).

As you can see in the attachment, the second bar has the correct lower/upper approach notes. Am I doing something wrong here, or is the book faulty?

[odin70]

Spørs om det ikke er en feil der gitt.

[Febs]

Originally Posted by OnlyJerry

In the first bar(F7 chord) the lower approach note to the fifth note is a natural B, since the fifth is a C note. After playing the fifth the illustration tells me to play the upper chromatic approach note, which would be a C#/Db note. But here the illustration shows a B note(same as lower approach).

As you can see in the attachment, the second bar has the correct lower/upper approach notes. Am I doing something wrong here, or is the book faulty?

It is a B because it is an upper chromatic approach note to the Bb in the next measure, not to the C that you've already played.

The Gb in the second measure is an upper chromatic approach not because it follows the F in the second measure, but because (presumably) the first note in the third measure is an F.

[TobyBass55]

I assumed that the B natural at the 4th beat of the first measure is an upper approach note to the B flat that comes next. ie, at the beginning of the second measure.

edit: beat me to it was still typing when post above went in

[OnlyJerry]

That explains it, thanks alot for the quick answers

[Febs]

Glad to be of help. If you haven't already seen it, there is a discussion thread on the Building Walking Basslines book, including participation by Ed Friedland himself:

Building Walking Basslines Lesson 1