Building & Expanding Walking Bass Lines With Embedded Audio Mp3

Building & Expanding Walking Bass Lines With Embedded Audio Mp3.

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Building Walking Bass Lines

A walking bass line is the most common approach to jazz bass playing. The term “walking” is used to describe the moving feeling that quarter notes create in the bass part. Just like walking with your feet, the walking bass line is one step after the other that takes you somewhere. This is an important concept to remember, the walking bass line is movement.

Walking bass is also used in rock music, blues, rock-a-billy, R&B, gospel, latin, country, and many other types of music. In other words, you don’t have to be a jazzer to walk. The processes involved in developing a walking line are applicable to any style of music. Essentially, this process is looking at a set of chords, deciding which notes we want to use, and determining the order in which we will play them. Being able to make these decisions will make you a “conscious bassist” as opposed to a bassist that hits or misses. With this in mind, I hope you are ready to start walkin’ !

The specific goal of this method is to familiarize you with the techniques used to build walking bass lines, and to help you develop an awareness of how the process of walking works. By understanding how it works, you will find that the information is transferable to other styles of bass playing. By the end of this book you will have the information you need to play good, functional, straight ahead bass lines. You will also have learned a system for analyzing a bass line that will help you to understand why some bass lines work and others don’t. Rather than arm you with a few examples of walking bass lines, this book will show you the tools you need to build your own. Through the use of recorded rhythm tracks, you will have the opportunity to put the new learning directly into action. It is crucial to your understanding that you are able to hear and feel how the bass line works in context.

Expanding Walking Bass Lines

In the first book of this method, Building Walking Bass Lines, we learned many of the basic skills needed to create good, solid lines from a set of chord changes. The techniques discussed were: finding the root motion, adding the fifth, approach techniques (chromatic, dominant, and scale), scale wise motion, resolv-ing to chord tones other than the root, arpeggiation, indirect resolution, and chromatic motion.

If you are not familiar with these concepts. I recommend you use Building Walking Bass Lines before attempting to work through the material in this book. It is crucial to your understanding to have a good foun­dation with the rudiments of walking. The information presented in this book will be most useful to those who have a firm grasp of these basic skills.

This book will expand on your knowledge of the basics by focusing on some finer points of walk­ing bass lines. You will be exposed to some practical concepts to help you become more functional in a jazz rhythm section. We will branch out from the “straight ahead” and learn to stretch the boundaries of tonality. It is also a goal of this method to provide you with an opportunity to experience some “real world” situations and develop the skills to cope with them.

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4 Ways to Dynamically EXPAND Your Walking Bass Lines