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Building Walking Bass Lines (Bass Builders)
Description
- Walk, don't run- A walking bass line is the most common approach to jazz bass playing, but it is also used in rock music, blues, rockabilly, R&B, gospel, Latin, country and many other types of music
- The term "walking" is used to describe the moving feeling that quarter notes create in the bass part
- This book familiarizes you with the techniques used to build walking bass lines
- Through the use of 90-minutes' worth of recorded rhythm tracks on the accompanying
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Discussed in Recommended Listening for Walking Bass Suggestions Please in the TalkBass community
dave64o
Lots of great examples of songs to listen to, and there are many more. But another suggestion is learning some of what goes into walking bass lines, breaking them down and learning what's happening, learning how they're constructed, etc. Ed Friedland's book Building Walking Basslines is a great resource: [link] ... more
Discussed in Jazz-Impaired: Playing Arpeggios Over Frequent Chord Changes? in the TalkBass community
Persona87
Building Walking Bass Lines (Bass Builders) [link] This is a really good book for learning how to play in a walking bass style. It doesn't really teach you how to read music or how to memorize the fingerboard, but when it comes to learning the fundamentals of walking, it's very useful. Hope this helps! ... more
OldSchoolFlats
The link doesn't work for me, but I seem to recall having that book several years ago. ... more
Persona87
Sorry the link didn't work. I was on my phone and I guess the link didn't copy correctly. Here is a new link. Another book you might like is from a TBer named Ed Fuqua (though I've been away from the site for a while, so I'm not sure how active he still is) called Walking Bassics. ... more
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