Need assistance creating walk/fill during guitar solo

[progrmr]

We're playing this great Lincoln Brewster song at church tomorrow morning called "Evelasting God" - pretty quick song, 8th notes pretty much the whole way.

Anyway there is this section during the guitar solo that is ripe for a nice fill or walk between the changes. So the chords are:

B E G# E

so hitting the roots looks like this:


G|-----------------------------------------
D|-----------------------------------------
A|--------------------7777777777777777---
E|-7777777777777777----------------------

G|-----------------------------------------------
D|-----------------------------------------------
A|-11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11-7777777777777777---
E|-----------------------------------------------

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Actually this doesn't sound as bad as it looks, but as a self-respecting bass player I don't see how I can let such a golden opportunity to jam out fly on by Especially during a rocking song where a little bit more is appropriate.

So I'm trying to come up with some kind of fill/walk between the changes where I spend 8 notes on the root, then the last 8 on the fill/walk to the next chord. But this is where I'm running into a bit of trouble. I don't know any arpeggios, and really only know the major and minor scales.

The first thing I came up with works like this:

G|-----------------------------------------
D|-----------------------------------------
A|---------------6-7-9-7-4-6-77777777----
E|-77777777-7-9---------------------------

Doesn't sound bad but not quite right either. And I'm going strictly on sound rather than music theory because I don't any theory that will help me at this point

While I'd like to get something down for tomorrow morning I'd really like to get a real lesson about the right way to go about doing this type of thing as it would come in handy for a BUNCH of songs.

Any tips or ideas?

[Stumbo]

Here are some links you may want to check out:
~Getting creative
Where does creativity come from?

Creating bass lines
Target Approach
Walking bass line examples
Ed Friedland on walking bass lines

For a jam
Jammin'

Playing scales

Playing behind/ahead of the beat
"Feel"
Playing "in the pocket"

Check out the links below for more great TB info.

Good luck.

[progrmr]

Thanks man, at church right now so the roots will have to do but I will spend some time with those links over the next link.

Lol'd at the title "where does creativity come from"

[progrmr]

Here's a good link with a few lesson chromatic approaches, root-5th patterns and other patterns for creating bass lines. Pretty good reading:

http://www.cyberfretbass.com/line-creation/index.php

[Mr. Lovejoy]

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