Scott, you drive that thing like a beemer on the windie through the curves while finding the apex of the turns and smoothing out the tighties making them lucies all the while holding the pocket and driving the groove, you are an animal. thanks again!
Oh my gosh! how timely. I need to learn walking bass line and have tried other videos and it did not click for me until this video. Thank you sooo much. Much respect.
Doing this on my NXT upright at the moment. It makes me think about open notes and dropping down to the 5th instead of the natural thing of going up. The chromatic leading tones really make you think more on upright.
Oh man, I was wondering how you would handle the Am7b5 at such an early point in a lesson, and it was so perfect! And chromaticism was explained so well! I send a lot of my students to your channel to review our lessons, and I'm glad I do!
Man i love your videos. I just bought a bass a couple months ago. I havent been playing much but I still watch your videos literally everyday. I follow a few music youtube accounts but i find myself always just watching these videos.
MIND = BLOWN, this is absolutely a great tutorial for a beginner bass player, just discover this channel recently and I absolutely fall in love with this, thanks for the amazing content ! keep it up
Just to let you know, this is so easy to understand at the pont that earlier today I was asked out of the blank to play 3 jazz standards tomorrow on bass and, I'm a saxo and I've never played a walking jazz line on bass and of course I'm walking them all now thanks to you!!
There is one trick that I figured out on my own (but later saw a video of you teaching it), which is the 5 pentatonic shapes. In terms of bang-for-buck, it's hard to imagine walking bass lines being that good. I mean, I went from being locked into one or two positions, to being able to move pretty freely across the neck in just a few hours. Within a month, all of my fumbling for notes and getting lost on the fretboard have almost vanished and my bass lines are naturally a lot more interesting now. And I only practice a few times a week due to life...
I am a middle class guitarist but I love the bass sound. With just 3 of your videos first time I understand bass guitar^^ You are a really good teacher. Maybe of you I start up with bass guitar? thx even for that, you're a good guy.
When describing how to find the 5th above the root, at 4:53, Scott says it is three frets up. NO, it is two frets up. They way Scott is counting, the root is "one fret up" from itself. You are moving up one string (a fourth), then two half steps (two frets) to get to the fifth. Obviously, Scott knows where the 5th is, but he is describing it in a bad way which is confusing to people trying to follow along.
Very nice Scott i like the way you explained demonstrate this lesson.. a friend tried to explain this to me but i never understood what he meant... now it makes complete sense and i'm going to get working on this thanks so much. greetings from New Zealand from and ex Bristol lad. cheers Big Si
@@lucalull13 Wow, I forgot all about my comment. Anyway, I don't know...I'm really bad at theory. Maybe I'll stick the audio into my DAW and try to reverse engineer it (my DAW has a chord detector..never actually used it, but now I will). I know you can look at his fingers, but I always do something wrong when I try to replicate what he's doing.
My god! I learned something today. Something that probably everyone but me knew. That is, when you play a string on one fret then the one above is a fifth but the one below is a fourth. I always thought it was a fourth in both directions. Thanks for that Scott. 👍🏻
Thanks Scott, it's a great lesson, and one I will be visiting a good few times. I hope you're all enjoying your new home. Best wishes from the South, in Surrey :-) .
Great lesson and excellent, concise formula of employing root-3rd-5th + related chromatic to walk through changes. Bonus points for raised-eyebrow technique for differentiation between major and minor sounds! Love your lessons Scott. After test driving these videos and freebies for a few weeks, I'm sold and will be signing up for the whole megillah this week.
Great!. A simple lesson, straight to the point, and really helpful. Walking basslines is really one of the basics one must learn. I can create them for a song, but I should practice improvising over chords on different styles o music I don't usually play, so I can get a different kind of feel or groove or swing with each style.
Hi Scott! I am usually a guitar and harmonica man, since 40 years back, but when I came in to your world, you really hit me! I have one signatur Fender Jazzbass (Noel Redding) since a long time back, I love this one! Because of you I am a bass player too! Thank you for all your lessons and your way to explain everything!! Klas Kallhag
I'm going back to this stuff as feel I never learned and applied the 'basics' properly. Lately I've noticed walking the whole 'form' of a tune like Autumn Leaves, in one position on the fingerboard, is a really good exercise. Anyway, thank you so much for this. Bloooody brilliant!
Wow! Just came across your channel and I subscribed. This is so informative. I have been playing guitar for many many years, but I am a very poor bass player. Bass is such a different instrument. You are an extremely good teacher and talented musician. I am not surprised you have so many subscribers. You'll hit half a million soon!
In my second year of bass & always wondered what the "connecting" note was between chords. Normally I just hacked at it until it sounded right. Thanks for telling it was a chromatic note. Great hint about dropping to the note below when there isn't one between.
This isn't just for bass players. Anyone who _really_ wants to play jazz needs to understand the function of the bass in the band, and Scott's method works whether you're a horn player or keyboard player. Jamey Aebersold takes you through a similar method in his books to really learn the chord changes of a song, but it's geared towards horn players; this method gives you useful bass lines from Day 1. I've got a bass, but I'll be applying this to my trombone and piano practice as well. Scott, is that a fretless P-Bass?
I played in a semi professional swing band for over 10 years, root-5th is absolutely your bread and butter. Trick is to add some vegetables and a little desert from time to time 😊
+Scott's Bass Lessons As usual you've provided a clear concise method from the basics up with room to grow. Thanks much! As a new member of SBL I can say: yes your youtube channel is full of great info but the website has much much more. It's like comparing an ipod to itunes. (I'm not coerced by apple or SBL to post, but I'm willing to be)
Hey Patrick - great to hear you're enjoying the membership at SBL. We're just doing a whole website rebuild at the moment... so when it launches it's gonna be even better! :)
Best lookin is the sunburst five string, but one string too many for me.Best sound got to be be the Precision, and having a jazz neck is going to make life easier.....Defo the one for me. Old Ibanez has run it's course. New bass would renew my interest as I don't play so much these days.Learnt at 11yrs....now 62 years..............
Nice one Bassman...Johnny Cymbal from 1963. Great song for you there buddy. I had a Laney 100 wt Bassman amp years ago & my sis put me onto this tune. And guitar players think they have all the fun? Ha. Cheers big ears. ;) Have a bassy weekend mate.
Trying to learn walking bass lines by ear was giving me a nervous breakdown. Thanks for simplifying it for beginners! You’re a great teacher! I’ve got some practicing to do lol.
This is a great break down Scott, and I love how it goes slow & adds one new piece at a time. Even us beginners can follow these lessons and sound like we know what we're doing :). But I need some help from someone! Right around 5:37, when Scott's beginning a walk using just roots and fives, there's a "ghost note" right before the first C. In fact, through the whole run there's a few of those ghost notes...just a quick Ba-Bum--Bum. How is he doing that? It almost looked like an extra hit on a different string, but when I tried that mine did NOT sound like an extra ghost note. Do I just need to practice that hit, or is there something else I'm not seeing??? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks guys!
If I've got the spot right, it may be an open string and a hammer on the next note to play. Scott - excellent lesson, if I had this lesson to build on years ago in high school Jazz band I'd have been a bass god.
Bill, thanks for responding! I'll check it out later - open D string (or A string?) and hammer on the C your thinking? Sorry if this was kinda obvious, but I appreciate the help.
Open D/hammer on C sounds the closest - Scott's first hit sounds very percussive and sharp, mine just sounds like an open string, but I'm going to chalk up the difference in sound to me just needing to work at it. Even if I can't get his sound, the idea does seem like a pretty easy way to spice up the line though; thanks again for the help.
Scott, you drive that thing like a beemer on the windie through the curves while finding the apex of the turns and smoothing out the tighties making them lucies all the while holding the pocket and driving the groove, you are an animal. thanks again!
wow. Just... wow Scott. That has to be the easiest and simplest way to start walking bass Ive ever seen. this is what Ive been looking for. Thanks!
No worries Brian, great to hear you enjoyed it! :)
Enjoyed? INSPIRED!
Oh my gosh! how timely. I need to learn walking bass line and have tried other videos and it did not click for me until this video. Thank you sooo much. Much respect.
Amazing how one of the 23 kevin's personalities is teaching how to play the bass :D
lol!
Francisco Uribe 24 if you include the beast 😏
Francisco Uribe i was thinking the fucking same from the first moment i discover this channel 😂😂😂
Me too María.
Haha this is probably the best thing I've ever seen!
Doing this on my NXT upright at the moment. It makes me think about open notes and dropping down to the 5th instead of the natural thing of going up. The chromatic leading tones really make you think more on upright.
Oh man, I was wondering how you would handle the Am7b5 at such an early point in a lesson, and it was so perfect! And chromaticism was explained so well! I send a lot of my students to your channel to review our lessons, and I'm glad I do!
Friend your videos have changed my life each one in its own way! Do not stop!
"how to Play walking bass" plays sitting
the one that walks is the bass, not the bassist ;-)
@@eugene-d thanks for helping us out here!
Real jazz bassists actually walk while walking the bass
@@InsaneH Kind of awkward with an upright
@@vadatrip But how impressive!
Man i love your videos. I just bought a bass a couple months ago. I havent been playing much but I still watch your videos literally everyday. I follow a few music youtube accounts but i find myself always just watching these videos.
MIND = BLOWN, this is absolutely a great tutorial for a beginner bass player, just discover this channel recently and I absolutely fall in love with this, thanks for the amazing content ! keep it up
Btw I am curious of the glove you were wearing on your left hand, does that affect the tone or is it use for protecting your finger?
Just to let you know, this is so easy to understand at the pont that earlier today I was asked out of the blank to play 3 jazz standards tomorrow on bass and, I'm a saxo and I've never played a walking jazz line on bass and of course I'm walking them all now thanks to you!!
There is one trick that I figured out on my own (but later saw a video of you teaching it), which is the 5 pentatonic shapes. In terms of bang-for-buck, it's hard to imagine walking bass lines being that good. I mean, I went from being locked into one or two positions, to being able to move pretty freely across the neck in just a few hours. Within a month, all of my fumbling for notes and getting lost on the fretboard have almost vanished and my bass lines are naturally a lot more interesting now. And I only practice a few times a week due to life...
Brilliant! You start with this and expand from there you just can't go wrong.
OK this is more gold dust. Coupled with visualizing the chords across the fingerboard; really opens it up.
Thanks for walking us through this! 😏
lol... see what ya did there ;)
Scott's Bass Lessons please tell me how do you link gm bar seven into g7 bar eight with out jumping frets?
He Scott, what’s a good brand for bass amps
I am a middle class guitarist but I love the bass sound.
With just 3 of your videos first time I understand bass guitar^^
You are a really good teacher.
Maybe of you I start up with bass guitar?
thx even for that, you're a good guy.
OMG I have learned so much, I’ve only been transcribing walking bass lines but never could improvise, this is the first step! Thank you!
When describing how to find the 5th above the root, at 4:53, Scott says it is three frets up. NO, it is two frets up. They way Scott is counting, the root is "one fret up" from itself. You are moving up one string (a fourth), then two half steps (two frets) to get to the fifth.
Obviously, Scott knows where the 5th is, but he is describing it in a bad way which is confusing to people trying to follow along.
Very nice Scott i like the way you explained demonstrate this lesson.. a friend tried to explain this to me but i never understood what he meant... now it makes complete sense and i'm going to get working on this thanks so much. greetings from New Zealand from and ex Bristol lad. cheers Big Si
I have never seen such usefull, efficient, easy to watch, fun, channel as this one. Love your videos!
it's mind blowing to think how great of a teacher you are.
2:20 .."We play chords, but we don't do it all in one...." Then he does it, and that sounds pretty dang cool! Do THAT more often!
Lol... ok, i'll get some chords going on next time for ya ;)
Awesome! Looking forward to it!
@DavidNika can you tell what chords are those?
@@lucalull13 Wow, I forgot all about my comment. Anyway, I don't know...I'm really bad at theory. Maybe I'll stick the audio
into my DAW and try to reverse engineer it (my DAW has a chord detector..never actually used it, but now I will).
I know you can look at his fingers, but I always do something wrong when I try to replicate what he's doing.
@@davidnika446 Well if u can do that thing of detect the chord u would help me much. Thx anyway
Thank's mister Scott. I follow you as much as i can. You allow me to make a lot of progress. Continue again!
Thank you so much!
My god! I learned something today. Something that probably everyone but me knew. That is, when you play a string on one fret then the one above is a fifth but the one below is a fourth. I always thought it was a fourth in both directions. Thanks for that Scott. 👍🏻
Best lesson on the subject i've seen in a good while.Thanks again Scott, cheers from Oregon,USA.
Ahhh cheers Cy :)
I am a guitar player, but I really enjoy your lessons and I learn an awful lot!! Thanks a lot, Scott, and regards from Argentina!
Thanks Scott, it's a great lesson, and one I will be visiting a good few times. I hope you're all enjoying your new home. Best wishes from the South, in Surrey :-) .
Great lesson, thank you! I dusted off my old bass recently that I bought years ago and your videos have been a huge help.
Nice :)
just today I wanted to practice my walking bass a lot. Thanks!
That's the best 10 minutes of my life as always great video!
Great lesson and excellent, concise formula of employing root-3rd-5th + related chromatic to walk through changes. Bonus points for raised-eyebrow technique for differentiation between major and minor sounds! Love your lessons Scott. After test driving these videos and freebies for a few weeks, I'm sold and will be signing up for the whole megillah this week.
Lol... thanks for the bonus points man. Groove on! :)
Just ... wow ... thank you! You're a masterful teacher.
GREAT FORMAT, 10 min video is perfect
Though I am playing walking bass for decades I am amazed about how musically just root ad 5th sound if you give it some rhythmical attitude.
Great!. A simple lesson, straight to the point, and really helpful. Walking basslines is really one of the basics one must learn. I can create them for a song, but I should practice improvising over chords on different styles o music I don't usually play, so I can get a different kind of feel or groove or swing with each style.
Love your videos I've learned so much from you
Ahhh awesome! :)
Is Right J.
Scott's Bass Lessons can i for the bass academy monthly by pay pal?
**pay for the bass......**
J-Rod24
Hi Scott! I am usually a guitar and harmonica man, since 40 years back, but when I came in to your world, you really hit me! I have one signatur Fender Jazzbass (Noel Redding) since a long time back, I love this one! Because of you I am a bass player too! Thank you for all your lessons and your way to explain everything!!
Klas Kallhag
It is soooo much fun watching you and learning, Thank you.
Awesome vid Scott. As a beginner bassist this exercise was really revealing. Thanks a lot!
amazing how you posted this video exactly one day before my exam about walking bass, thank you so much!
Ha - WIN! Awesome man :)
I'm going back to this stuff as feel I never learned and applied the 'basics' properly. Lately I've noticed walking the whole 'form' of a tune like Autumn Leaves, in one position on the fingerboard, is a really good exercise. Anyway, thank you so much for this. Bloooody brilliant!
hahabass you missed an opportunity to say applied the ‘bassics’ properly
Wow! Just came across your channel and I subscribed. This is so informative. I have been playing guitar for many many years, but I am a very poor bass player. Bass is such a different instrument. You are an extremely good teacher and talented musician. I am not surprised you have so many subscribers. You'll hit half a million soon!
Scott, as always, a FANTASTIC approach to getting it. I continue to learn from you. Thanks!
Well that was an eye opener. Amazing lesson... as always. Thx
Scott,
Thanks for your time and talent of making things much easier to grasp and apply!
No worries Jason! Thanks for joining in the conversation :)
Thank you for this Video Scott. I am very impressed.
Thank you,
Greetings from Austria
Awesome tutorial. Learned more about walking bass in 10 minutes then up until now.
Scotti you are really awesome... I will be joining your classes soon...
Awesome Scotti! :)
very,very sympatic mr.Scott......thank you for this lessons
Very cool Scott. You make it simple.
Scott, you truly are the best.
Cheers Harry :)
Fantastic teacher. Thanks a lot.
You, Sir, are a maestro!!
i like this , and where it is going i just love jazz , i am still a want to be,so much to learn,thanks Scott !!
Best TH-cam bass teacher. Thank You Scott!
Ahhh thanks!
Exactly what I needed...
Thanks man!
Awesome... have fun in the shed man :)
Great job Scott. Thanks
In my second year of bass & always wondered what the "connecting" note was between chords. Normally I just hacked at it until it sounded right. Thanks for telling it was a chromatic note. Great hint about dropping to the note below when there isn't one between.
That's it Paul! Great to hear the lesson did the trick for ya :)
"Excellent information on "walking bass" you are a great teacher and musican!
Who knew? Well, you did. And now I know too! Thanks for sharing a brilliant lesson.
Ah got the tape wounds!! Thanks for all the content, signing up for the membership next paycheck after how helpful your free vids have been. Cheers!
I Need Thoses Strings right nowwwwww !!!! Merci beaucoup PBass on top !
This isn't just for bass players. Anyone who _really_ wants to play jazz needs to understand the function of the bass in the band, and Scott's method works whether you're a horn player or keyboard player. Jamey Aebersold takes you through a similar method in his books to really learn the chord changes of a song, but it's geared towards horn players; this method gives you useful bass lines from Day 1. I've got a bass, but I'll be applying this to my trombone and piano practice as well.
Scott, is that a fretless P-Bass?
I love your lessons man keep the videos coming
I played in a semi professional swing band for over 10 years, root-5th is absolutely your bread and butter. Trick is to add some vegetables and a little desert from time to time 😊
Awesome lesson mate, thanks!
Those tapewounds fit you perfectly Scott!
I LOVE that bass... It's so nice :D
+Scott's Bass Lessons As usual you've provided a clear concise method from the basics up with room to grow. Thanks much!
As a new member of SBL I can say: yes your youtube channel is full of great info but the website has much much more. It's like comparing an ipod to itunes. (I'm not coerced by apple or SBL to post, but I'm willing to be)
Hey Patrick - great to hear you're enjoying the membership at SBL. We're just doing a whole website rebuild at the moment... so when it launches it's gonna be even better! :)
You are awesome. Really helping me understand. Thanks!
Matching headstock looks gorgeous on a fender
The two in the bar exercise is wonderful!
Great lesson! And as always just out right fun to watch!
mhh that's some tasty playing and 0 dislikes :D really helped as a funk/metal bassist trying to widen my horizon and this really helped!
Always sounds so good!!!!!
Great lesson Scott!
I just picked up my first upright.
This video will be an excellent starting point for me..
That video was really helpful, thanks Tom for making those!!
Greetings from France o/
Just joined the academy. Really looking forward to learning how to play the bass. Thanks for these videos!
Hey Scott thanks for the lessons
you help me a lot
Aggghh! At work and can't wait to shed this one.
Excellent presentation. Thank you!
Thank you so much Sir for this lesson. I really need it. Gbu
DUDE! U ROCK! U just saved me a bumch o'money!!!
Amazing! SImple, powerful - I love it!~
Great lesson!!! And a baseline to my favorite jazz song no less
AWESOME!! Thank you very much!
Top Guy! Couldn't break it down any easier!! 😎
This is so helpfull! Thanks Scott!
Cheers Carsten :)
Best lookin is the sunburst five string, but one string too many for me.Best sound got to be be the Precision, and having a jazz neck is going to make life easier.....Defo the one for me. Old Ibanez has run it's course. New bass would renew my interest as I don't play so much these days.Learnt at 11yrs....now 62 years..............
Thanks Scott!!!
Nice one Bassman...Johnny Cymbal from 1963. Great song for you there buddy. I had a Laney 100 wt Bassman amp years ago & my sis put me onto this tune. And guitar players think they have all the fun? Ha. Cheers big ears. ;) Have a bassy weekend mate.
glad to be a member, mate :)
Trying to learn walking bass lines by ear was giving me a nervous breakdown. Thanks for simplifying it for beginners! You’re a great teacher! I’ve got some practicing to do lol.
Awesome lesson!
This is a great break down Scott, and I love how it goes slow & adds one new piece at a time. Even us beginners can follow these lessons and sound like we know what we're doing :).
But I need some help from someone! Right around 5:37, when Scott's beginning a walk using just roots and fives, there's a "ghost note" right before the first C. In fact, through the whole run there's a few of those ghost notes...just a quick Ba-Bum--Bum. How is he doing that? It almost looked like an extra hit on a different string, but when I tried that mine did NOT sound like an extra ghost note. Do I just need to practice that hit, or is there something else I'm not seeing???
Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks guys!
If I've got the spot right, it may be an open string and a hammer on the next note to play.
Scott - excellent lesson, if I had this lesson to build on years ago in high school Jazz band I'd have been a bass god.
Bill, thanks for responding! I'll check it out later - open D string (or A string?) and hammer on the C your thinking? Sorry if this was kinda obvious, but I appreciate the help.
Yup, exactly something like that, good way to add a little bonus here and there in any bass line but certainly a walking bass line
Open D/hammer on C sounds the closest - Scott's first hit sounds very percussive and sharp, mine just sounds like an open string, but I'm going to chalk up the difference in sound to me just needing to work at it.
Even if I can't get his sound, the idea does seem like a pretty easy way to spice up the line though; thanks again for the help.
looks to be raking
Best bass teacher ever
Just put tapes on my J bass a couple days ago and loving the tone and feel
Yes man - tapes are soooooo fun!
I've been hoping for this lesson for quite some time
Thanks Scott!
love your vids man, thanks a lot!
I use the tape wounds too, love them!!!