3 Levels of WALKING BASS For Guitar - Walking Bass Guitar Lesson
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2024
- How to make your own Walking Bass for guitar with chords in between.
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If you play guitar on your own or with just a drummer, being able to play walking bass on guitar and throwing some chords in between, is one of the coolest things in jazz. My students ask me about it all the time. So I thought, why not make a tutorial on walking bass lines.
In this jazz guitar lesson you'll learn how to build your own walking basslines for guitar and add some typical jazz chords in between. So you will become the bass player and the guitar player in one person. Why pay a bass man, theyre divas anyway, lol.
I'll teach you the two main concepts for walking bass lines on guitar. The first uses chord tones and chromatics. The second one uses scale tones.
I'll use the A section of the jazz standard Autumn Leaves to demonstrate these walking bass for guitar concepts. If you know how to apply the concepts here, you'll be able to create your own walking basslines from scratch for any song.
In my walking bass jazz guitar lesson I'll show everythin note for note, slow and easy.There is a playthrough for each of the examples in the tutorial.
Of course I've also made a walking bass for guitar tabs, which you can download from the link up above this info box. From now on walking basslines won't be a mistery any more. You'll definatly make a big step forward in your jazz guitar playing with the incorporation of walking bass.
Please let me know waht you want to learn next. Just leave a comment in the comment section below.
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Walking Bass Guitar Lesson - How to play Walking BAss on guitar (with chords):
00:00 start
01:06 Level 1: Half-Bar Changes Using Chromatics Example 1
06:57 Example 1 Slow Tempo
07:22 Level 2: Walking Bass Lines Using Chord Tones Example 2
14:43 Example 2 Slow Tempo
15:24 Level 3: Walking Bass Lines Using Scales Example 3
21:48 Example 3 Slow Tempo
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1:06 Half-Bar Changes Using Chromatics Example 1
6:57 Example 1 Slow Tempo
7:22 Walking Bass Lines Using Chord Tones Example 2
14:43 Example 2 Slow Tempo
15:24 Walking Bass Lines Using Scales Example 3
21:48 Example 3 Slow Tempo
Austria has historicaĺly been a musical center, and your videos are extending this historical tradition. Good work!
Many thanks! As a Viennese you grow up with lots of classical music. I always wanted Poo, Rock, Jazz in our music class in school, but it was always just classical music. Until the pandemic Vienna had the highest per capita jazz clubs, though. Unfortunately a lot of them had to close their dolrs forever.
never tried a walking bass, now you convinced me to play it without talking to me directly ;-) - it's magic! thx
Thank you for sharing your knowledge
Glad you like it! Thank you for watching ♥️
Maestro Sandra herself, live 'n direct. Great lesson indeed! And that's how my weekend was made. Thanks to you for the lesson, much appreciated indeed. And thanks to the technology (in our era) for making it possible that the Maestro sitting in Austria can make my weekend here in Zambia...Bless you more and more. Long life!
Thanks so much for your very nice words! ❤️ And hey, I have never got acquainted with someone from Zambia 🇿🇲! Please to meet you, my friend.
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman Glad that I am your first acquaintance from this part of the world. One Love!
You are my Favorite artist, You are a great teacher. Thank you
🌹🎸🎩The mother of all lessons, thanks so much, be well Mrs.Sherman & see you !
Thank you so much! ❤️
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman Thank you, Sandra, for making these lessons. I love jazz guitar, but I have limited money to pay for lessons because I am from a developing country (the Philippines). Your lessons are very good and very clear. Many jazz guitarist lessons on TH-cam are very confusing. Many of them are good jazz guitarists, but in my humble opinion, some are not good teachers. I love that you share the basic principle of the walking bassline + chords, which we can expand on and add our own interpretation. You are an excellent jazz guitar teacher, one of the best in youtube. Thank you for sharing. Greeeetttiinggs from the Philippines :)
You explain very well and clearly. Thank you very much. You are an angel.
Glad it's helpful! ❤️
Great stuff. Thank you for taking the time to do these videos for us.
Thanks for watching, my friend ❤️
Tried to understand the walking bass concept years ago as a bass player and failed.
Now I’m learning jazz guitar and you’ve explained it to me very clearly. I cannot thank you enough. Wish I’d found this channel sooner
Welcome to the jazz ride, my friend! ❤️
Merci Sandra, thank you so much for your excellent teachings !
You're very welcome! I like helping people enjoy their jazz ride 😊
I watched your video on Walking Bass over a Minor Blues a while ago and was hoping for a tutorial on how to create walking bass lines in general. You din't disapoint! This video is exactly what I needed. Thanks so much!!
Glad you like it and I can be of help 😊
Wonderful lesson. It has helped me a lot as a brand-new student to jazz guitar. Thanks!
Welcome to the jazz ride, my friend!
Fantastic lesson Sandra. Thank you.
Happy you like it ❤️
SUPERB !!
Thank you so much, your channel is one of the most informative on youtube!
Thanks so much, my friend!
La meilleure explication !!!🎼🎸🎶🎸
Thanks so much for this lesson, explained things so well !
Glad it helped you!
I really enjoy the walking bass lines with chords. Not only does it sound cool, but it also serves as a great looped backing track for soloing and as a dexterity exercise for practice. Thanks again Sandra!
Cool idea about the loop! I just finished shooting another walking bass lesson :-)
Sandra, this lesson makes me very happy. Thank you!
You're so welcome!
Hello Sandra,
You are just a Fantastic Teacher. Thank you so much for your Generosity.
Thanks so much, Patrick! ❤️ Glad my tutorials help and you let me be a part of your jazz journey.
It's so good to see you again! I watched at least one of your lessons EVERY week for a couple of years and learned a LOT of songs from you. Then I moved and life was crazy for numerous reasons, and I've settled back into learning more Jazz.
As always, this was a SUPERB Lesson. You explain things very clearly and at the perfect pace for me to grasp things and not have to pause or back up like some other Teachers I've seen. Thank You for all you do, and may God Bless You.
Welcome back to the jazz world! ❤️
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman Thank you so much! I sincerely enjoy every one of your lessons. I shared this one with a friend. I hope he subscribes. (I LOVE Austria! I was stationed in Germany for 3 years and went to Austria several times. I now live in an area of Colorado which reminds me VERY much of Austria & Bavaria. It's absolutely Beautiful. Thank you for your response. Have a Blessed Day.)
Ok, you did it again. Checking off quickly your video and... getting me in for 2 hours. You are an awesome teacher for me, thank you.
Oops, I did it again. Sorry, not 😁. Glad I got you hooked 😊. Keep swingin and groovin, my friend!
Great lesson, thank you so much !
Thanks for watching and enjoy the jazz ride 😊
ALWAYS THE BEST!
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Thank you for your work!
Thank you for watching, my friend! ❤️
I wish I had found you when I started studying jazz guitar! One of the things I really liked about this lesson is that you sang occasionally along with your playing. I think it should be done more often! Thank you
That's a wonderful compliment ❤️. Thank you, my friend. Enjoy the jazz ride on my channel 😊
Sandra, Greeetings from Texas. We Enjoy your videos and lessons/arrangements.
Hi Randall, I know you from your Paypal purchases! Thanks for your support. I'm glad to be a little helper on your jazz learning path.
Excelente explicación!!!
Thank you, my friend! ❤️
Brilliant lesson cheers. The walking bass sound is superb
Walking Bass sound so cool and it's less hard than people think.
First time I saw this video it was way above my reach. Thankfully after learning and practicing comping it makes a lot of difference. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, exactly! 👏 As I always say, chords are key to everything. Now you can focus on the bassline, bc the chords are easy now. Keep swinging and happy Thanksgiving, Stuart! 🦃🦃🦃
Sandra, you're the best .. Great lesson, and you have such great feel for the guitar
Thanks so much! ❤️ Glad you enjoy the tutorials and docs then helpful 😊
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL SOOO MUCH! THANK YOU SOO MUCH FOR SHARING!!
Oh, thank you for your kind words! So glad to make you happy 😊. Keep swingin 🎶 🎸
How cool is that?
Very cool :-)
Thank you so much you are a great teacher
Ahh, you're so sweet. Thank you
Sandra, thank you so much for this, and all of your other fantastic videos .. You've helped me so much in getting over the block I have always seemed to have when approaching jazz ... You are on my Mount Rushmore of great youtube guitar teachers !! ( along w/ Troy Grady, Camillo James and Brian from Active Melody )
Thank you, Ifeel honored up there on Mt Rushmore 😊❤️. Glad, I made you swing 🎶🎸
I love your videos!
Very nice and well explained.
Thank you! Keep swingin 🎶 🎸
This is really nice, pls keep on making these kind of vids
I will, as long as nice people like you continue to watch them ;-)
Thank you! I love you!
Aawwhh, thank you ❤️
Great videos Sandra! It's a good way to start finger style Jazz guitar by breaking it down separately.
I'm not much of a fingwrstyle guitsr player, but walking basslines are definitely a great tool for fingerstyle.
Great tutorial and easy to follow. Thank you and subscribed!
Enjoy the jazz ride on my channel! 🎸🎵🎸
Thank you so much, "walking bass problem" confused me for several months, now I got it, you are a kind person
Happy to help! ❤️
Really well explained and demonstrated. 👍
Thanks! ❤️
Excelente!!!!
Glad you dig it 😊
You are so incredible! I bought 2 walking Bass books and watched other videos and could not figure how to walk. You have saved me so much time and $, lol! Thank you for your fun and fabulous lessons 😁
That's really great to hear! 🧡 Now you can spend all the saved $ in MY store, hehe 😁
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman I have and plan too🙂
You are just wizard teacher! Thanks a lot !
Sending over magical vibes. Hope it helps! 😊
Hi Sandra, thank you so much for all the great teaching that you provide to the jazz guitar community. I would respectfully suggest that, at the beginning of a video like this one, you start with a demonstration of the technique so that when you are explaining it step-by-step, we will understand what the result should sound like. Just like when you do a tutorial of a song. At the beginning, play the exercise just to provide a demonstration of the technique.
Good point. Thanks, Steve!
I do think so!
This is an amazing video
Glad you find it helpful! Check out my Walking Bass Startter Pack!
this was an eye opener! i could already level 1 but your explanation of level 2 was stellar! major or minor triads, why did nobody show me this before. simplifies choices so much, forget the extensions.. now i can use my own brain to work out things moving forward, thankyou very much ❤ crazy thing is now ive watched your video im questioning why i didnt have the brains to work it out myself.. youve certainly given me a lightbulb moment, switched my brain on! im subscribed and will be back for more.. great teacher, best wishes.
Hey, glad you like it and find it useful 😊. Nothing to worry about yourself. How would you know? You can use this concept also for soloing. Play chord tones and use a chromatic before going to the next chord.
I like your lessons a lot, I wished I could spend more time to watch and learn - but certainly an appointment every week!!! thank you very much
We all wishe we had more time for practicing, don't we? 😊
Ahhh... lunch was good today Sandra! I’d like to emphasize the importance of this lesson to any budding bassists. This is great info for both guitar and bass - in context to each other! (Might want to get that knee looked at - pop!).
Ha, the knee has been popping for several weeks now. But it doesn't hurt.
I hear women can read thoughts. Must be true, because just yesterday I was thinking about looking for a book or tutorial on this topic. You can imagine my excitement when the notification popped up on my ipad, that my favorite teacher came up with a walking bass tutorial. Thank you, Ms Sandra!
Yes, we can 😁
Loved it! I've been wondering how they do that? Thanks Sandra! You are the best!!!
It's also a good way to learn your arpeggios along 😁. Keep swingin, Chris!
Just ordered this! Will work on it this weekend! Cheers!
Hey Chris, glad to see you working out new stuff.
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman I am in them last 2 parts of Misty! Really frustrating Sandra because I have issues with my left hand pinky. The pinky is always late in arriving at the note in the line of the song that goes "You can say that you're leading me on..." That word "leading is wher ethe pinky arives late. That note! LoL!. It is getting faster with repetition but if you do the math, I've been working on the song for close to a year now. Imagine 30 plus years of playing just cowboy chords and Maj7 chords was as close to jazz as I got then all of sudden now chord melodies with tons of jazz chords. It's like I am learning how to play the guitar from the beginning. That is why I stopped posting on youtube for now. I decided I will not post until I get this chord melody completed. This walking base will add variety in my daily practice. Richie Zellon's online course is difficult as I do not 1:1 with him and basically just learn on my own and since it is a university type course, it's tough, but I am learning more about the theory behind it. Enjoying the journey though! Cheers!
Good lesson.
Thank you! Stay safe, my friend!
Bravissima!
sei molto brava
Mille grazie 😘
Nice one Sandra 🎼
Are you walking already? 😊
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman Small steps .😀
I love Sandra.. From Chile.
Thank you! ❤️ Happy holidays 🎄
so put down tonic for each chord , approach them above or below chromatically by 1/2 step. and instead of playing a scale , play the arpeggio of the chord approaching the target chord by a 1/2 step. i hope i got that correctly, .... from texas , many thanks sandra
Yes, but you can also play the scale. That's one of the concepts.
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Gern geschehen 😊
Good explanation of the different ways to walk the bass - plenty of concentration needed I suspect for those without a good theory grounding. I'd suggest that people master the bass line to the point it becomes second nature before throwing the chordal stabs in.
That's a good point. If got have a good rest, it may help over a lack of theory knowledge. Learning the baking without the chord stands first is a really good idea. Keep swinging, my friend 🎶🎸
Thank you for your lessons! We’re all here learning lots from you! One request I would like to make is, could you play the full version first and then break it down rather than the other way around. Some more advanced players could skip the breakdown bit and move through the examples faster this way 😉 thanks again 🙏
Hi Emilio, thank you for your kind words! I usually play the full version first. But with this video I thought it made more sense this way 😊
Oh my goodness, do you realize Puddles just released his version of Autumn Leaves?!!! He must have gotten his inspiration from you! ❤️
I just saw it and it's jaw dropping! So much feeling in that one ❤️. He has such a jazz voice. Maybe not so much in Autumn Leaves than in Moon River and Nature Boy. Playing a jazz standard with him once is high up on my bucket list!
Another great lesson, there is a lot to unpack here, possibly another candidate for transposing to knock down the technical stuff. Thank You again...! B-)
Try to get major, then minor chord walking basslines under your fingers. First transpose them by moving them horizontally, then stay in an area.
Guitarversum Sandra Sherman thank you, you have been a great help to my playing and thinking...!
Great lesson for beginners in jazz guitar.Do you have any example for a 7 strike g guitar with walk-in bass line on 6-7 strings and 3 notes chords down?
Excellent!
I can FINALLY do walking baseline..
Thank you!!!! Do you do private lessons too?
Yep, just send me a mail to the address in my channel.
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman okay I will!
Amazing lesson!! Thank you so much!! I guess in real situation, we combine all 3 ways in one tune depending on the length of bars right? I found the 2nd way is primary.
Absolutely! Use whatever gives the best line and connects best to the next chord. Also you decide what sounds best to your ears. This is just a pool of possibilities you can choose from!
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman and what about on a chromatic movement?
I wanted to share your wonderful stuff with the rest of the world so went looking for you on Facebook - no luck. Please start a page. Others need to know about you!!!
would have thought to play 1 3 #5 on the G7#5
as in G B D# D leading to Cm7, or
G B D# B leading to Cm7 ?
Thanks for another great lesson!
Your can do that. Chord tones always fit. But sometimes the ear wants something unlogical 😊
QUESTION: In your example where you walk from C minor up to F, your chromatic approach tone is E natural, which is the major third of C. Do you worry that the minor character of the harmony is comprised by the E natural?
No, not at all. The ear perceives this as a chromatic passing tone.
"we end up in nirvana" made me laugh !
Great lesson. But i didn't quite understand why the minor scale is used for the C7.
Gm and C7 are in the same scale and they're related. A lot of people prefer thinking in dorian.
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i join many others in saying FINALLY i have a shot a walking bass. BUT two questions: 1. in playing thru the First Level it feels like i am playing two beats per chord and int he Second Level it fells like 4 beats per chord...why? 2. Is the half diminished the only exception to bass line being root, third, fifth, transiton note or are there others? Many thanks for all the work you have posted, but especially this lesson.
1) 2 beats per chord bc each chord is only a half bar of a 4/4 meter. A full bar has 4 beats of course.
2) What's on the 4th beat totally depends on the upcoming chord. But it's usually a semitone below or above the upcoming chord.
Hope that helps.
Please understand that I usually don't give written lessons in the comment section. But you can take Skype lessons ;-) You can find my email address in the chanbel description.
Can't wait for my exams to get over so that I can jump right into this
Keeping my fingers crossed for you! ✊What are you studying?
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman I'm studying Computer Science and Business with a minors in Jazz studies. Thank you as always for the video 😁
Hi sandra! A question, Should I memorise a pattern on every side of the root note in all the 5 positions in dom7 maj7 min7?
Thanks for a very logic lesson
Skat do you mean by "pattern"? An arpeggio or a scale?
GuitarVersum Sandra Sherman Yes i mean chord tones on every side of the root note . Do you remember all the walking bass trix (chord tones chromatics diatonic etc) like a lick that takes you from one chord to another?
Yes, I memorize the visuaks from, like a I7 chord to the IV7 cord. But I also know the chord tones and the scale to use. Do I can pretty much improvise a Walking Bass line.
GuitarVersum Sandra Sherman Ok do you just use the chords with the rootnote on the 5th and 6th String?
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I notice you tend to use an electric guitar. Is it realistic to do this kind of chord melody on acoustic, or it generally too hard given the greater amount of pressure that the acoustic strings need?
I'm a jazz guitarist, so I ist a jazz guitar 🎸 😊. They're semi acoustics or archtop. I have a video on the differencies. You can of course use an acoustic guitar, as long as you don't run out of frets. Some have only 12 frets till the body connection. If you have a steel string guitar you can somewhat change the space between the strings and the fretboard, by adjusting the truss rod. On a classical nylon string guitar that's not possible.
like,like, like and like.
Thank you! Like, like, like you 😊
When “take five” chord melody?
I did that already. Please just type "Take five Guitarversum " into the YT search box. Do so with every song you want to learn. I have hundreds of songs up on my YT channel.
I'm sure this is a good lesson, but I'd ratrher hear the exercise played at the front. That way I know if this is something I want to play.
You can just skip to the end 😊. There are even chapters you can click in the video.
I apologize. I woke up mad at the world. Verseihung, bitte.@@GuitarversumSandraSherman
No worries 😊. It was constructive criticism.
Btw, this is an older video. For the past 2 or 3 years all my tutorials have the song at the beginning and, if it's a fast song, a slow version at the end.
I don’t understand why play perfect 5th on G7+ and not D#.
That's why I said you can choose what sounds best to your ears on that chord. To me the #5 sounds weird in the bass.
Two things missing: A fragment of a melody and a fragment of a drum. Musicians are so lousy payed, that they have to do all the jobs in one.
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you are showing things far too fast, at least put some chords schematics on top as even my eyes cannot follow your speed. far far to fast and skittish to make this this valueaqlbe lesson. It's only for really advance players which makes this lessons pointless as advance players who can follow this crazy speed that also should already have this skill. shame, as this content its targeting very few out of hundreds people who wants to learn. Consider being more understanding that your audience could be a little slower than you as they came here to learn something , so considering slowing down a bit might give you much more , At this tempo this isn't lesson for me.Too annoying.
Thank you fir the feedback. Unfortunately most people don't watch lengthy slow talking videos. You can always hit the pause button. As mentioned in the video, there is a Tab with chord diagrams. The link is in the video description (right belkw lr to the right side of the video. You'll need to click "more" or the little arrow to unfold that info box abd see the link.
Also, you shouldn't attempt Walking Bass, if you don't already knlw the basic shell voicing. The chords in the video are the simplest jazz chords there are. Check lutmy Blues Tutorials playlist with beginner friendly Blues videos. This one here isn't for beginners!
Your lessons are normally very good, but this is not, sorry... I don't understand anything!
I'm sorry that this lesson isn't right for you. Maybe you need some basic theory knowledge? Please understand that for jazz you should have basic knowledge of musical theory and chords etc.
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman I have no clue about music theory, and that's why I normally like your stuff. And I disagree whit you, for jazz not the theory, but the right feeling... I will continue watching your videos do, because you are a good teacher :-) and I learned much from you, even do I don't understand the music theory... ;-)
Incredible lesson!Thanks!!
Glad you dig it 😊