Walking Bass Lines - Beginner's Guide

Walking Bass Lines - Beginner's Guide

Walking bass lines are the most common approach to play jazz. As the name implies, walking means that a moving feeling should be created with the bass part. Just like walking with our feet, walking bass lines are meant to take us somewhere. Movement is the main concept with walking bass lines.

Walking bass lines are not only played in jazz and also, concepts of walking bass lines can be used in genres like rock, blues, r&b, gospel, latin, country and many other types of music. What you need to take away from that is, you don’t have to be a jazz player in order to learn how to play walking bass lines. The process involved in creating bass lines are applicable to any style of music.

Essentially, when you are encountered with a set of chords, deciding which notes to play and determining the order to play them is always a challenge for us bass players, since we need to outline chords and the direction of the progression. Learning how to play walking bass lines helps us to make those decisions more consciously, in that sense.

After this course, you will be able to compose and improvise walking bass lines and use those concepts to come up with your own bass lines in other genres.

Feel free to ask any questions about course before you enroll.

See you on the inside!

Learn how to play walking bass lines and get compositional skills on bass.

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What you will learn

• Learn to analyze and play walking bass lines.
• Ability to construct improvise walking bass lines over Jazz tunes on the spot.
• Fundamentals of Jazz harmony and progressions.

Rating: 4.25

Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 1 hour

Instructor: Umut Aksoy