Jazz guitar – walking bass lesson

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Posted Under: Bass Lessons Videos
this is a lesson explaining how to play chords and walking bass lines simultaneously for jazz guitarists.

Reader Comments

Useful stuff! Thank you man.

#1 
Written By goozollah on December 31st, 2012 @ 8:25 am

Awesome job . Thanks

#2 
Written By HotRodSixString on December 31st, 2012 @ 8:48 am

Very useful, thanks

#3 
Written By Vivek Ayer on December 31st, 2012 @ 8:54 am

Thank you, this is a very good lesson :)

#4 
Written By BrianBerowski on December 31st, 2012 @ 9:41 am

thanks Men, you are a very good teacher !
do you have any partiture or tabs of this example ?

#5 
Written By TirelessGuitar on December 31st, 2012 @ 10:14 am

Kevin, nice lesson. I’ve heard approach notes called “side-stepping” too

#6 
Written By guitaress1 on December 31st, 2012 @ 10:49 am

hey, Thanks right back at you. Now when someone asks me why I hate ignorant comments by anonymous idiots on the internet I can just link to your comment. cheers.

#7 
Written By Kevin Van Sant on December 31st, 2012 @ 10:53 am

wow, someone made a video based on the EXACT reason i HATE jazz, thanks you for the video… now when someone asks me “why” i can just link them this video, cheers.

#8 
Written By reptaryay on December 31st, 2012 @ 11:26 am

that was funny lollol

#9 
Written By emixolydian on December 31st, 2012 @ 11:38 am

fuck this guys sick . i love jazz! i need to sample the hell out of this some day. hope u dont mind.the man is ill

#10 
Written By delakush666 on December 31st, 2012 @ 11:50 am

fuck this guys sick . i love jazz! i need to sample the hell out of this some day. hope u dont mind.

#11 
Written By delakush666 on December 31st, 2012 @ 12:01 pm

Excellent video. Really glad I found it this morning.

#12 
Written By Morganizer on December 31st, 2012 @ 12:57 pm

Wow, got a week worth of lessons in 12 minutes. Very straight forward 5 STARS!!!

#13 
Written By jimi jack on December 31st, 2012 @ 1:01 pm

Hi Kevin.

Thank you very much for this enlightening lesson. Playing walking bass on guitar for me is a cool way to memorize tunes and, well, it relaxes me, too :)

I do however often find myself not being able to think of good walking bass stuff to play whenever one harmony´s duration is two bars (e.g. as in “Lady Bird” or “Take the A Train”) or even longer, as in modal pieces.

If you or anyone reading this could give me a tip on this it would be very much appreciated.

Greetings

Helge

#14 
Written By metronomegoldstrat on December 31st, 2012 @ 1:27 pm

Awesome lesson, thanks.

Very specific, yet highly efficient and easy approach to a sometimes very difficult subject.

#15 
Written By vindikation on December 31st, 2012 @ 2:19 pm

Really nice explanation.  Thanks alot for putting this lesson together.

#16 
Written By Blkdrs on December 31st, 2012 @ 3:00 pm

merci pour ce cours il est extraordinaire

#17 
Written By laurent gianesini on December 31st, 2012 @ 3:20 pm

This is the best lesson on Youtube!!

#18 
Written By zlognaut on December 31st, 2012 @ 3:36 pm

I think it’s called ” Bumping ” because there was a Wes Montgomery Album by the same name?

#19 
Written By chefericproject on December 31st, 2012 @ 3:41 pm

You’re fucking brilliant on guitar, but i think you’re expecting the beginner to make some leaps in terms of technique that probably take years to develop :P
Like “Oh you can just as easily just play some notes on top like THIS (boodeeloodee bwee bop bow) do that it’s easy”

#20 
Written By TheK3vin on December 31st, 2012 @ 4:31 pm

YOU ARE A HOSS

#21 
Written By campanis on December 31st, 2012 @ 4:49 pm

Thank you very much! I’m practicing walking bass so I can join my college jazz band. Turns out walking bass is actually pretty easy…I made it way too difficult in high school.

#22 
Written By vikingwizardeyes2121 on December 31st, 2012 @ 5:01 pm

so i guess the rock guitarist played much more efficient right? :D

seriously, i find it dumb to bash musicians who play other genres than the ones you personally prefer

#23 
Written By Metalwurst666 on December 31st, 2012 @ 5:24 pm

helpful stuff, thanks

#24 
Written By kop4 on December 31st, 2012 @ 5:33 pm

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