I was reminded recently that a lot of bass players struggle to come up with a satisfying practice routine. They just simply don’t know how to have an awesome practice experience on the bass. Many students I encounter tend to approach their practice time in a less structured way. This unfocused type of practice just […]
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This week for Walking Wednesdays we worked our way through the classic tune ‘So What’. The whole song is really just two chords a D-7 and Eb-7. It seems like that should make it easier but it actually makes it a little more difficult. I really liked all of the lines that you guys wrote and hope
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This week we are going to work through Autumn Leaves for our walking bass line. This tune is mainly made up of a – ii V7 I – in major and a – ii-7b5 V7 i – in the relative minor. In measures 19-20 the Eb7, and Db7 are tri-tone chord substitutions. Without those substitutions
I like that our first walking bass line is going to take place on April fools! The walking bass line this week will be a F blues. I will put a link for the PDF below that you can download. April Fools Blues – Lead sheet for Blues in F Remember to use the hashtag #walkingwednesdays If
Walking Wednesdays is a crowd sourced walking bass line. Using social media we can create some truly unique walking bass lines all while learning from each other and having fun in the process. Sound like fun? You may be saying to yourself this does sound like fun but how exactly will that work? I mean we can’t
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In order to capture the sound of this bass line I would recommend playing a P-Bass with flat wound strings (old ones if you have a set). If you play with round wounds I would play the line using a palm muting technique (see last part of video for explanation) and your tone control turned all the way
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There are lots of great bass lines that have been played over the years on different recordings that are memorable for many different reasons. The Payback bass line played by Fred Thomas is definitely one of the greats. One of the good things about this bass line is the use of space, or rests in your playing. The space you
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