Learn the art of jazz bass. Whether you are new to playing jazz or wish to hone your skills, and whether you play acoustic or electric bass, this book will help you expand your basic technique to create interesting and grooving basslines and melodically interesting solos. Included are 166 audio tracks of demonstrations and playa…
Expanding Walking Basslines follows on from the hugely popular Building Walking Basslines, adding further concepts such as using dead notes, rests, skips and triplets. More advanced concepts such as using non-chord tones and chromatic passing tones as targets are covered in detail, as are the use of pedal points and techniques for playing over modal…
Building Walking Basslines is a complete method book for learning how to improvise walking basslines. Using common jazz progressions such as the jazz blues and ‘Rhythm Changes’, the book teaches the concept of walking bass from the ground up, beginning with roots, fifths and octaves, then expanding to arpeggio-based lines. Approaches to chord tones such…
