I have Jay Hungerfords walking bass line book. Half the book is just measures with / / / / in them. If someone could shed some light on what to play. All of the titles to each are similar to, similar to.........Thanks for the help!
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- Thread starter rickster4003
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The / / / / represents quarter notes. The notes you choose is up to you- that's jazz baby!
"Similar to" is a work around for copyright infringement. I've looked at those tunes, the chords seem to match the Real Books, I think it's just they don't include the melodies.
"Similar to" is a work around for copyright infringement. I've looked at those tunes, the chords seem to match the Real Books, I think it's just they don't include the melodies.
Thanks for the reply. I was hoping the book taught a bit more. Btw, I am up the road from you in Syracuse.
I would like to expand by saying that the chord above the "/" is one of the chord tones (or a leading tone to a chord tone) that you should be playing. On a blues, you could have a Bb7 at the top of the first measure, and just get //// for four measures. Don't change the chord until you get a new one.
Post Script: You can also get chord changes every beat, or sub-beat. If the slashes look like eighth notes, then they're eighth notes.
