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…