3 Killer Tips For Better Walking Bass Skills

This week we’re looking at Walking Bass Lines and some aspects of practice that often go neglected.

Walking bass is mostly and improvised art and we can get stuck in the process of creating and developing vocabulary through improvising around musical nuts and bolts like chord tones, scales and chromatics. This is fine and the basis for most walking bass teaching methods.

However, it’s worth looking at a few other aspects of walking bass study such as reading pre composed lines, analysing transcriptions and composing your own complete lines.

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24 thoughts on “3 Killer Tips For Better Walking Bass Skills”

@talkingbasslessons

at 5:22 am

Lesson Material and Track here: https://www.talkingbass.net/3-killer-tips-for-better-walking-bass-skills/
@markbass354

at 5:22 am

COOL !!!
@dougp2917

at 5:22 am

Outstanding information about analyzing harmonies outside of the diatonic scale.
@jakespatz4474

at 5:22 am

Nice line too
@LDACG

at 5:22 am

cool addition to the library.
@super7-11

at 5:22 am

Very nice ????
@davidreichert9392

at 5:22 am

Another great lesson Mark, but I'm only posting to say that I love that bass that you have in this one.
@paggielee4906

at 5:22 am

THX S .
@drawebajo1750

at 5:22 am

Mark Thank You 4 the lesson. There is a mistake in bar #10 on 4th beat must be "D natural" instead of "D#" as written, because in the next bar on beat 1 we have "Eb" which ="D#"
@ralfspitaler8921

at 5:22 am

What a perfect lesson. Thx Mark
@rodoherty1

at 5:22 am

I loved the harmonic analysis section. I understood just enough to follow along but I learned a few things along the way. More lessons like this please!
@KallieExperiments

at 5:22 am

Thank you. This is just so wonderful.

I've been a subber for a long time now, but for years haven't hardly practiced at all. Mostly due to time and priorities. ????????????????

Recently I've been picking up my bass and started practicing again. I'm practically still a noob, though ????. Going through my subs, I noticed your channel and promptly turned notifications on (yes, it's been so long since I've practiced regularly that when I subbed to you, the notification bell didn't exist yet!)

I hope you don't mind, but I've paused halfway to pick up my bass and focus on the first few things you discussed. I love the explanations and the theory, and this video is just packed with a whole lot of great information.

Looking forward to more as I restart my journey. God bless and stay awesome!
@jdmarino

at 5:22 am

I never understood all the hate for tabs. I, for one, use them, but not slavishly. I often rewrite them to suit my own fingerings. And I produce them in software, so they use standard rhythmic notation. Learning to read standard notation would be a lot of effort, with little benefit for me.
@pampurrs88

at 5:22 am

I agree, don't use tab! Never ever!
@saptamdutta

at 5:22 am

Did the app came for android
@ZodiacEntertainment2

at 5:22 am

Another amazing lesson Mark! Thanks for everything you do, these walking basslines are one of the best ways to learn more about applied harmony. I've had a lot of fun with creating my own chord progressions and trying to improvise to them.
@robertschaeffer5861

at 5:22 am

Great material, reminds me how much I don't know or was it use to know…after awhile I started to see the notes as a jungle gym and was swinging note to note..
@nofrets5

at 5:22 am

So much information….but way way too much to take in for my pea brain; a lot I understand but while the info likely wasn't coming at most too fast, it got that way for me. Are their ways to learn and implement small bits of all this at a time, so one could build the understanding of a concept or two, lock it in, then learn a couple more, and so on? Great info, but it's the locking pieces of it in….It was hard enough for me to follow in this particular key.
@Murdo2112

at 5:22 am

That was a right rollercoaster of a lesson.
From "yeah, yeah, with you so far…" to "what? shit, now I'm lost" to "oh, actually that does make sense… nice one!"
Great teaching Mr Smith.
@adamdavies1910

at 5:22 am

Thanks again, Mark. I find this stuff so useful. I just wish my playing was as good as my understanding!
@bassforkids4504

at 5:22 am

I agree with writing your own lines.Much fun and good practice to use your ear to come up with unusual and interesting bass lines,even breaking some theory rules along the way.I don't read but I put it down on staff paper bar by bar and memorize it along the way.
@kerrywilliams5086

at 5:22 am

Is there a link to a PDF of the sheet music for this lesson?
@jazzbrew68

at 5:22 am

Excellent lesson Mark. I brought your walking course and it is honestly one of the best that I've ever taken. I am still working through it. The three tips you're sharing here are ones that are not frequently encouraged. Thank you!
@mikebrown7269

at 5:22 am

Great lesson Mark. However i see we have three idiot sicko's just below here, advertising for the dance of the desperates'