Jazz bass lines can be intimidating, right? You see these incredible bassists creating incredible bass lines out of thin air and improvise like there’s no tomorrow – it can be super inspiring. But then you hear them talk about things like ‘double chromatic approach tones’ or using the ‘Superlocrian mode’ over altered dominant chords or […]
How To Walk Through 2 Chords Per Bar
“How can you play a walking bass line if there are 2 chords in the bar?” A student asked this on a live stream not too long ago, but I thought it was a great question and worthy of its own dedicated video. Walking through chord progressions with multiple chords in a bar is trickier […]
Hate Playing Modal Songs Like “So What”? Make Boring Walking Lines Beautiful! (3 Tricks)
One of my most watched videos is a lesson about walking bass line formulas. Maybe you’ve seen it yourself. I LOVE giving out these formulas! They’re unbelievably helpful when you’re learning to walk, so I give them out to every student of mine who needs to learn to play walking lines quickly and confidently. However, […]
The 30-Second Walking Bass ‘Hack’
I used to think that in order to get through a song with a walking bass line, you needed to have some sort of advanced degree in music theory. Everyone around me was telling me different things like: “You need to know all your scales to make it through” “If you don’t know your arpeggios, […]
Walking Bass Lines – 5 ‘Plug-And-Play’ Formulas
Walking bass lines can be an absolute mystery. Someone shoves a chord chart in your face and expects you to know exactly how to get through it. In theory, it’s easy. You just have to play 4 notes per bar, right? In reality, it can be a lot trickier than it sounds. The conventional wisdom […]
