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09-25-2007, 10:13 AM
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Anyone know some good songs that have walking basslines? I don't care about genre, I just want to see how it's done. |
09-25-2007, 11:22 AM
|  | It's a happy song about not getting what you want | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: NY, Just Like I Pictured It. | | | "Big Ten Inch" by Aerosmith. Pretty cool song, though a remake of an older blues tune. That's how walking bass is done.
Also, "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen.
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09-25-2007, 03:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: PA | | | Pick up a copy of Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"
It's one of those classics you should have in your collection at some point in any case.
Any of the tunes, but check out So What (after the intro).
For something completely differ'nt listen to Paul McCartney walk down F# in the opening bars to All My Lovin |
09-25-2007, 06:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Toronto, Canada | | | rare tune but see if you can download 'Woman' by the Mascots (Sweden's answer to the Beatles)
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09-25-2007, 10:07 PM
| | | | See my thread "Jerry Jemmott" in the bassists section. There's a link to a video with classic walking. |
09-26-2007, 03:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | | Check out some older Tommy Flanagan records with George Mraz on upright, or any recordings with Ray Brown (should be some recordings on wiki). Both very solid, straight players. Very good to listen to and analyze. |
09-26-2007, 03:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cahir, Tipperary,Ireland | | | Paul Chambers (with john coltrane) is brilliant if your going to play walking jazz lines ( an amount of theory will be needed). Ed Friedland has some great books and some of his examples are available on youtube.
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09-26-2007, 04:46 AM
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Originally Posted by liltommyg  Paul Chambers (with john coltrane) is brilliant if your going to play walking jazz lines ( an amount of theory will be needed). Ed Friedland has some great books and some of his examples are available on youtube. | +1 on the Friedland books. Great stuff for the construction of basslines, not just the reproduction. |
09-26-2007, 05:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Long Island, NY | | | Allman Brothers "Done Somebody Wrong", during the harmonica and guitar leads.
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09-30-2007, 01:50 AM
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Happy Phantom - nice and simple to start with.
In the springtime of his voodoo: great line, George Porter Jr. of the classic funk band The Meters plays this one.
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10-01-2007, 10:50 AM
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Luthier of Michael Wayne Instruments, Shop Manager ChromeDomeMusic | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cincinnati OH | | | Check out anything by Tommy Shannon (SRV). The stuff he did for Stevie is the perfect example of walking bass and 12 bar. |
10-01-2007, 10:52 AM
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Luthier of Michael Wayne Instruments, Shop Manager ChromeDomeMusic | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cincinnati OH | | | Oh, and also Stray Cats. |
10-01-2007, 10:54 AM
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10-10-2007, 07:27 PM
| | |  Ed Friedland's Walking Bass
Ed Friedland's got some good walking bass lines in his book "Walking Basslines".
I was wondering -- some of the bass lines in his book are not written out, rather Ed wants you to "make-up" what you think you hear from the CD. Thats great for building a good ear, but does anyone have access to some of these lines written in tablature form? I am stuck in a few areas in Ed's book, and need help....
Thanks,
G |
10-10-2007, 08:58 PM
| | | | Eight Days A Week - The Beatles (who else?) First walking bassline I learned. Fun to play, but harder than hell to keep everyone else from running away with the timing because they're too busy listening to themselves and not the whole band. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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