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Jazz Walking Bass Lines 1

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Instructor
Jonny May
Workshop
Intermediate
00:39:31

Learn 9 techniques for walking jazz bass lines, including outlining chords, chromatic connectors, 5ths, walkups, walkdowns, & more.

Course Objectives
  • Learn the Progression & Guide Tones
  • Explore Outlinine Chords, Chromatic Connectors
  • Discover 5ths, Walking, & Combined Approaches
  • Master Your Swing Feel
Learning Focus
  • Basslines
  • Groove
Featured Reviews

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Excellent!
very well explained - as usual for Jonny.
very interesting and fun!!
Easy to learn, and very useful musical concepts and ideas for improvising.
Some excellent ideas for a beginner to play a walking base
Easy to grasp with an excellent choice of tune to practice with.
So Many Great Insights!
This is another great course! Jonny explains walking bass techniques in a way that makes them easy to understand and remember. He also shares interesting information about contexts for performance and playing out.
Instant Gratification
Walking bass is made instantly easy with Jonny's approach. As long as you can count to four and play a LH note on each beat, while your RH plays guide tones, you can sound brilliant on thousands of lead sheet chord progressions while accompanying yourself singing. I guarantee you will feel and sound brilliant mixing up the simple LH patterns and wonder why, as I did, you waited so long to watch this course.

Course Lessons

1
Jazz Walking Bass Lines 1 – Lesson 1
07:08

Chord Progression, Root Position Chords, 3-7 Guide Tones

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2
Jazz Walking Bass Lines 1 – Lesson 2
05:27

Outlining Chords, Adding the Chromatic Connector

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3
Jazz Walking Bass Lines 1 – Lesson 3
07:57

5ths Going Up, 5ths Going Down, 5ths Going Up/Down

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4
Jazz Walking Bass Lines 1 – Lesson 4
11:28

Walking Up, Walking Down, Walking Up/Down

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5
Jazz Walking Bass Lines 1 – Lesson 5
07:31

Combined Approaches

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Featured Reviews

View PWJ member reviews of this course!

Excellent!
very well explained - as usual for Jonny.
very interesting and fun!!
Easy to learn, and very useful musical concepts and ideas for improvising.
Some excellent ideas for a beginner to play a walking base
Easy to grasp with an excellent choice of tune to practice with.
So Many Great Insights!
This is another great course! Jonny explains walking bass techniques in a way that makes them easy to understand and remember. He also shares interesting information about contexts for performance and playing out.
Instant Gratification
Walking bass is made instantly easy with Jonny's approach. As long as you can count to four and play a LH note on each beat, while your RH plays guide tones, you can sound brilliant on thousands of lead sheet chord progressions while accompanying yourself singing. I guarantee you will feel and sound brilliant mixing up the simple LH patterns and wonder why, as I did, you waited so long to watch this course.
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