Recent Posts Tagged With 'walking bass for guitar'

• Walking bass for guitar (9)

  Posted on Tuesday January 13th, 2009 at 10:31 in walking bass for guitar, arrangements: how to...

  Here's a walking bass line with the melody to "All the things you are". This style with just walking and melody is great if you want to play a melody solo at an up tempo.Aquí hay una línea de "walking" con la melodía de "All the things you are". ...

• Walking bass for guitar (8)

  Posted on Sunday January 11th, 2009 at 14:35 in walking bass for guitar

  When you walk for chords with a major 3rd (Dominant 7ths and majors), and you want to arrive at the I chord by halfstep, then the "rules" for walking suffer a breakdown. Following the scalewise or stepwise movement that we've done so far to make our...

• Walking bass for guitar (7)

  Posted on Thursday January 8th, 2009 at 06:46 in walking bass for guitar

  Here are three examples of how to walk from the V7 (G7) to the I (Cmaj7) chord. Try adding some harmonic hits to it. I'll be doing that anyway in the upcoming lessons, as well as covering a special walking for chords with major 3rds like dominant 7...

• Walking bass for guitar (6)

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 07:44 in walking bass for guitar

  In the following example we maintain the descending bass line from before, but start to add more of a melody in the upper voice. Here you have to be careful if you're comping for a soloist because if your melody line gets too busy then it's going to...

• Walking bass for guitar (5)

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 05:36 in walking bass for guitar

  Let's take the example of the descending bass line that was posted in the 2nd lesson of "walking bass for guitar". The first example posted below contains just the 3 note chords. The second one has 4 note 7th chords and a Dm9. The rhythm also chang...

• Walking bass for guitar (4)

  Posted on Friday January 2nd, 2009 at 07:06 in walking bass for guitar

  Let's add some comping (harmony accompaniment) to our walking bassline. I've started out with 3-note 7th chords (without the 5th). 3-note 7th chords are great for walking since it helps us move and change chords more quickly, especiall when the tem...

• Walking bass for guitar (3)

  Posted on Monday December 15th, 2008 at 08:30 in walking bass for guitar

  Here are some variations on what we've seen up to now. You're probably starting to see that there are many possibilities to walk from one chord to the next.If you can get two or three "stock" walking bass lines under your fingers then you will event...

• Walking bass for guitar (2)

  Posted on Sunday December 14th, 2008 at 17:10 in walking bass for guitar

  Let's try a descending walking bass line.Notice that in both examples seen up to now, the 5th of the Dm7 chord falls on beat 3. If we had tried a scalar approach in this example we would have started on the root "D", descended to its 7th "C" and on b...

• Walking bass for guitar (1)

  Posted on Sunday December 14th, 2008 at 07:22 in walking bass for guitar

  I'm going to take a break from the fingerstyle arrangement of "All the things you are" to talk about walking bass on the guitar. I touched on this just a bit in the arrangement and said that I'd do a lesson on it. This lesson also applies to bass p...