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Building Walking Bass Lines (Bass Builders)
$19.99 on Amazon

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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Comments from forums and Reddit

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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