walking bass

The first 6 or so minutes are a great intro to walking bass. Later it becomes more guitar specific.

Hi everyone, I am following the walking bass lessons from a youtube channel that provide music sheet as supplementary material. The music sheet is here: Simple Walking Bass Line For Jazz Beginners The chords used in the first line are the following: Cm7 (C, D#, G, A#) F7 (F, A, C, D#) Bb maj...

Hello everyone! I'm Noah Steiner, a 19-year-old bassist who is also passionate about app development. I've been playing bass and upright bass for the past 12 years, and throughout my journey, I've had some amazing experiences. Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in the Youth Forum...

When you play walking bass in a band, do you have lines memorized or the chord progressions memorized? I play bass in my schools jazz band but all of our music is written down so I have no experience with coming up with my own lines and I don't know how to approach it.

I've been playing upright for about 8 months right now, it's going well. When I play walking bass lines for more than 5 minutes straight, my left thumb starts to hurt. With songs that have more rests in between the notes this happens much less, it's the consistent motion that's hardest to...

I would be interested to know how you play a walking bass line on the "backdoor" progression: ivm7 bVII7 resolving to IMaj7 (for example in C: Fm7 Bb7 resolving to CMaj7). With 1 chord per bar, this progression is found in Lady Bird (bars 3 & 4); for 2 chord per bar, it is found in Misty (bar...

Hi everyone, I'd like to ask how you all practice Voice leading while walking & if you have any suggestions of important recordings to transcribe? I have been following a process recently where I restrict myself to specific stuff for examples only chord tones to walk for a few choruses, then...

One of my current teachers (a drummer) has me working on this and it’s been a revelation. Just walking for now, no solos or heads. Without stopping. And adding some increment of time periodically, like once a week I add 30 seconds or so. I’ve been doing it for a couple of months now and I’m at 9...

So I didn't play much of walking bass but sometimes I do need it for like rock&roll and jazz or blues songs at church, Im always fine with the simplest formula or arpeggios. But now that im getting better as a player i want to learn about how to actually build a real walking bass (not that of...

when everything's playing, she sounds close to an upright in the mix. Once it's quiet I can hear the difference. Still kinda cool.

Hello friends!. In your opinion, what is the best, or a good bass course for an intermediate? I've tried bass buzz.com ( begins to badass ) and even though I find it well made and the theater really funny guy, I feel that he doesn't go deep in any topic so after all I got a lot of shallow...

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Hello I'm hoping someone out there can help me. I was given The Art of Walking Bass by Bob Magnusson but it didn't have a CD so I went on the internet and bought a used copy thinking it would have a download code but it didn't so now I have 2 books without any of the play-alongs. I'm hoping...

Those interested in learning or teaching walking bass may have come across "The Low Down, vols 1 & 2" by Danny Ziemann (@dkziemann). Since I have not seen any review about it on TB, I thought I would give it a shot. I have not purchased the vol 1, which deals with the fundamentals of walking...

Hi all, I'm interested in hearing from others how they go about practising their walking bass. I've got a reasonable understanding of constructing lines, chord tones, arpeggios, chromatics etc. and have done a few jam sessions which went pretty well. However, I find myself repeating a lot of...

Hello to all. I'm working on Scalewise motion but when i try to target the chord tones (3rd and 5th for now) at first beat of chord changes, i get lost easily. Am i missing something? Is there any approach or trick to make it easier? Another Q: how much is this common in professional walking...

I've been working through the Art of walking bass book by Bob Magnusson I try to spend a few minutes with it every day. Right now I am working through the ii V i arpeggio lessons but my brain is having a hard time memorizing some of the mixed note patterns. Whenever I get to playing with...

I'm looking for some recordings of tunes using the bebop changes to study walking lines. I'm primarily looking for older examples from Ron Carter, Ray Brown, Paul Chambers and other old time greats but am also interested if anyone has any examples of newer guys (John Patitucci, Christian Mcbride...

Hi! I'm still a rookie jazz pianist with pretty good knowledge of theory an jazz vocabulary if I can arrange something for example. One big jazz goal right now is to create genuine walking lines as well as the 1 3-feel. In other words besides the independence and groove it cultivates after a...

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I’ve been playing bass for a bit under 3 years, practicing hard, having weekly lessons with a really good teacher. I practice my scales, we’ve worked on chord/mode/scale theory, we’re on our second pass through the U. Miami Electric Bass vol. 1, which has REALLY taught me my fretboard, studying...

Good solid technique.

The videos below showed up in my Youtube sidebar so I watched them since I had the day off. I have to say this was very eye opening and maybe it just clicked since I have been drilling major & minor triads so much and trying and failing to improvise decent bass lines to play with chord sheets...

Hi Bassists! I'm in the process of putting together a handful of free bass tuition videos for you tube. As a pro player and successful educator of some of the best new bass players in the UK I would love to put up some videos of material that you'd be interested in. If any of you guys have any...

Hey guys, this is my first time posting here :hyper:, although I've been a regular visitor for about 10 years! I'd just like to share with you all an unfinished music theory book that I began in 2013. I had planned to use it as part of a university project, but ended up taking different...

Have you heard any modern pop recordings lately with walking bass? I'm not so familiar with the genre so the only one I can think of is "For Free? - Interlude" by Kendrick Lamar, but it'd be interesting to hear more

I've been trying to study walking bass the past few weeks and have been having some pretty decent luck with it so far, it's also great being able to play the same song five times in a row differently each time! But, to the point, while researching methods for making walking lines I've come...

Anyone know of good examples of palm muting in jazz walking bass? Teymur Phell gives a great example on Mike Stern's recent album Trip. Check out "B Train": This is a contrafact for "Take The A Train." In the first choruses, Teymur walks with muting. Then he opens up for the sax solo (right...

Me and my buddy are jamming at a winery and one of the songs on the setlist he gave me was this one. I got the first part of what to play which is F G G# G F but he starts walking the bassline is where I get lost. Im not familiar at all playing jazz. Any tips?

Hello. Keeping up the jazz theme, im wondering if anyone of you has studied the acoustic/audio phenomenon that happens with the walking bass technique of a jazz song, such as there is not greater love, and making the melody over it with a bass too. i'll try to explain what i believe that...

Can anyone out there explain to me what the term, a biscuit drop is.I think It has to do with traversing 3 octaves in a walking bass pattern,like James Jamerson did in some Motown songs.Can someone tell me how its done using say a c major or any major scale.That would be so cool to learn.He did...

Hey guys, Would anyone be willing to share some walking bass transcriptions of John Pattituci's electric bass playing? I really dig his electric sound. Been looking for some good ones, but all I can find are transcription of his 6 string and acoustic bass solos. Thanks in advance PS: in b4...

Hi, I would like to see what is going on in this song. Especially the little bass run thing it does unexpectedly and throughout the song. I prefer to read notation, but if that is too much trouble tab is fine. Thanks, Joe

Just a quick note to introduce the first video in a new series I'll doing on youtube over the next couple of years. This first one is very basic, covering basic right hand tone production for jazz bass, but later videos will cover more intermediate and advanced topics. Some topics in the...