The Simple Steps To Walking Bass Lines course is available here at Talkingbass and this week we have a preview lesson. We’ll be looking at how to generate a walking bass line and the elements of study required when developing our vocabulary. P.S. For a complete guide to Walking Bass Lines be sure to check out the full course here
In this live stream we’re looking at walking bass lines. If you’ve ever tried walking through a chord progression you’ll know how frustrating it can be just dipping your feet in that jazzy water! So I’m going to give you all some tips on getting started, and also some more insight for those of you…
This week we’re looking at Walking Bass Lines and some aspects of practice that often go neglected. Walking bass is mostly an improvised art and we can get stuck in the process of creating and developing vocabulary through improvising around musical nuts and bolts like chord tones, scales and chromatics. This is fine and the…
This week we’re continuing our look at jazz standard practice by looking at improvising a bass solo through the Charlie Parker jazz blues ‘Billie’s Bounce’. Learning to solo requires practice and development of vocabulary. There are no ‘hacks’ or easy solutions but in this lesson we’ll be looking at some simple tips for getting started…
This is the third in the Walking Bass Series that aims to provide an introduction to walking bass lines for those just getting started. This lesson deals with the song Fly Me To The Moon and a basic approach to weaving a line through the progression using only chord tones. Fly Me To The Moon Backing…
This lesson is the first in a series of lessons devoted to walking bass lines. I take you through the basic concepts behind walking like targeting chord tones, arpeggio / scale / chromatic based lines and the other elements of walking bass. P.S. For a complete guide to Walking Bass Lines be sure to check…
Over the past few weeks we’ve looked at the Jazz Standard Billie’s Bounce. We’ve worked on the melody and we’ve analysed the harmony and chord tones by way of learning the arpeggios of each chord. This week we’re going to delve a little deeper into the chords by learning them on the bass. We’ll be…
Wow! What a lesson. Brought together so many areas I have been looking at and put them into a fairly straightforward bass line that answered so many questions. Many thanks.
I like the way Mark teaches , no bullshit , no pretending to be ” Hip ” .
Mark, I’ve been playing around with walking bass lines for the past few week, this lesson gave me some great insight on the journey to the next note! Well done sir. Also, I agree you are the best instructor on the internet, I appreciate that you get right to the lesson. Thank You!!
Where do I find module 1 Mark mentioned. Beginner I am
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Beautiful. It’s amazing how a very simple walking bass line can make you “able to play walking bass lines”. This gives LOTS of motivation.
Recently joined! I’m a guitarist, tres player but wanted to learn bass to improve my knowledge and to create my own practise loops etc. Thoroughly enjoyed this and really want to continue walking bass. This is super tuition and rare. Straightforward, well planned and just thoroughly enjoyable (which is should always be even if the learning process is hard and taxing). Super.