Walking Bass Lines Over A Single Chord EXPLAINED!
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- This week we're looking at walking bass lines and specifically, how to walk over a single chord for long periods of time.
Many players new to walking bass find a lot of information regarding playing through changes like 2-5-1’s and blues progressions. That practice is absolutely vital and probably most useful when learning to walk, but there isn’t the same attention paid to walking over a single chord.
Learning to walk over a single chord is a really useful skill. Modal jazz is the most obvious place for this kind of application but learning to walk over one chord is also great for practicing chord tones and scales over the whole fretboard and it also gives you the chance to experiment with a variety of chord tones, scales and chromatic notes within one tonality.
This kind of walking can be really tough when you’re getting started because you can quickly run out of vocabulary and it forces you think up lots of new ideas while exercising your ear on the fly.
So in this video I'll be giving you tips on how to start building that vocabulary.
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Lesson material and tracks here: www.talkingbass.net/walking-bass-lines-over-a-single-chord-explained/
Despite your being an advanced player, I can tell you still remember what it was like to be a beginner, and thus can think like us and answer questions we don't even know we yet have. That's why you are such a good teacher.
Finally! Someone explained to me, how this works.
OMG! One thing is being a great bassist, which you obviously are, but another is KNOWING how to transmit your knowledge!You are f***ing AWESOME, man!!! You ooze musicality and wisdom. Cannot thank you enough
Walking bass lines is one of my favorites
Mark, you're a genius. I knew the single musical building blocks in this lesson before, but was not able to make good use of them. Now your explanations put them together in a meaningful way. Thank you very much for taking your time to teach us this.
Excellent. A so much more enjoyable and natural way to learn this improvisational style than learning pre-written basslines in Ed Friedland's book.
OMG! He is awnsering my questionou!!!😍 thank you so musch mark!
@VD :)
@VD no I did.
Lol
I’ve been playing for decades and I always get something from your videos, you’re really the only instructor I’ve ever actually listened to lol. Thx
Mark, you continue to amaze and show why you are the best bass teacher on the internet. I didn't think I would get much out of this lesson, but again, you explain it so well, and break it down into nice, easily to manage chunks. When I began playing many years ago, I always thought chromatic notes where taboo. You had to play the notes in the scale. It's only since I picked up bass again a little more than a year ago and started your lessons that I realized what a chromatic note is and how useful they can be in getting to the note you want to hit. You are the master. Thank you.
This is the BEST lesson on Modal Walking you will find anywhere, thanks Mark!
Mark - You have a very real talent for quickly distilling somewhat tricky concepts in a very simple way.
THANK YOU MARK! You make things so easy to understand! I appreciate all your lessons they are so helpful! You are making my practice so much more fun and musical!
That bass sounds GOOOOOD.
Love the clear metallic timbre of the two low strings.
Love it. Another great lesson. This has just let me walk all over the neck like I’ve never before. Great lesson, this is definitely going to be added to my daily practice. Cheers Mark
This lesson really will help with improvisation at one point with being able to move all over the frets in octaves. Thanks so much!
This is a really useful method especially for modal jazz tunes such as Maiden Voyage or So what, which used to always make me hard fill in the four bars with the same chord. Thanks a lot!!!
Thank you... I actually came here understanding how to play keyboard bass over a chord on a keyboard. I wanted to include 2 non-chord notes and it seemed to sound great, a real Pink Panther's sexy big deep cousin sound. But I didn't know if I was crazy and should make the dissonant notes shorter and wait for the next beat, lol. But that kills the mood. It sounds great just playing all the notes equal length or sustain, and you explained why. I'm sane!
This idea of working between the root and fifth is money. Awesome. Thanks!
Thanks Mark! Loved this one! 👌🏻
this video finally cracked walking bass for me. thank you so much
Hi mark. You're the best teacher in youtube so far for me..
Brilliant, best teacher - thanks very much, appreciated!
Exactly what I was looking for thanks!
Thank you for this excellent lesson. You are a great teacher.
Really great lesson, thanks.
great lesson, thank you.
Just from reading these comments I KNOW THIS VIDEO is Top Shelf 🤘
great lesson!
Great job!
Respect. Some people don't even want to do this, they just want to keep working with music, and keep the instrument in their hands. Gigs are tough to come by these days. Hopefully it's going to pick up big time after most folks get Vaccinated, and businesses recover financially🌈🌍🙏✌🍄
Great lesson as always, my man!
What kind of bass is that? It’s pretty sick!
Keep up the good work!
Cheers from California.
Good evening everyone!
Just curious what bass are you using in this video ?
Will u be able to play I'll be there but Marcus Miller's version of it
I have problems with the bassline first following the drum kick etc but then if i should follow the main guitar riff, lyric (combination of the two) or its just ment to sit alone...I assume its just practise but the uncertainty is annoying in itself.
What should I play when someone says: "so you are playing bass? play us something"? I need something that sounds impressive, but is not very hard.
Second question, what would you play in a music store to test a bass guitar? I always have a blank page in my head when I'm in that situation
I've always found the bass line to Rush's YYZ tends to impress people. I began playing it in my local music store and a guy who was checking out a bass put it back on the rack and walked out, out done by a chick. 🤣
Try learning a song that you like to start so you are more motivated to learn it. I found slap bass impresses some people but that is harder to master for beginners. Maybe try Higher Ground - RHCP that is slap and actually isn't very hard when you think about. I find just playing a groove and staying in the pocket is more impressive than little tricks and licks.
I will usually go start off with a song by UFO called Cherry, I have a Dorian riff that works off that will end up near the nut at which point I do a few trills to the open string that will end up on on the open E, letting that ring out for a few seconds to let me hear the sustain the bass has before I do a few slap and pop riffs before I hit a nice ringing cord around the D on the 10th fret on the E.
Shrug my shoulders at that point and give it the not bad look.
For trying out a bass guitar it kinda depends on what you’re going to use it for. Essentially you need to try out all of the different type of sounds you use and make sure it feels good.
Play some scales, some slap riffs, some stuff with a fat tone, some stuff with a tight tone, stuff up high on the neck as well as down low
Detroit by Marcus Miller always impresses
Tell me that you're related to Alexi Sayle, or Stephen Henry. You sure have looks of both.
I was once asked to play a walking bassline over Giant Steps, at 220ish bpm. It was a challenge. But, this one chord is more challenging to keep it sounding interesting. Mind, I'm not really a fan of music needing walking basslines. Give me Mick Karn any day.
Good lesson, regardless. 👍
Mark, your bass sounds amazing....what are your pickups you use? they don't sound like they're off the standard "off the rack" set.
Sims super quad pickups
Would you therefore avoid the Bb coming up too?
No because it lands on a weaker beat.
I like hitting a flat 3 at times before playing a cord tone.
By "enclosure" you mean jump over the root and come back to it?
Yeah, there are different kinds of enclosure in melodic lines,
Check out 8 bit musics theory’s “Pepsi man” tune analysis,
There’s some really solid information about what you need to know about melodic enclosures!
There’s a diatonic enclosure, which is where you play the notes above and below (or below and then above) the root in its scale, enclosing it,
or chromatic enclosure which is the same but with the notes chromatically above and below the target note. Or you can use a diminished scale to really surround it with the 2 half steps below and the 2 above
Dude ...where are you from?
Uk accent :)
I think Mark is from Leeds, so that's a West Yorkshire accent.
West Yorkshire, England. I’m from Wakefield near Leeds. Born in Sheffield. Now live on the Isle Of Wight
@@talkingbasslessons Thank You mann!!!!! your one of the few teachers that make's sense to me
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I can't really follow you
I found you an interesting teacher before you started to speed up your talking and raise your voice. This intense talk doesn’t reflect your soft and nice personality, as I see it, and it gives me a hard time following your lessons. Sorry, because I thought you were the bass teacher I liked the most, when I first heard you.
Wie kann man nur so viel reden.!?