Thursday, March 19, 2026
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Accompanying Yourself Part 5 (More Advanced Bass Lines)


After watching my first walking bass video, https://youtu.be/_42ln1oWSKw This is your next step to make your bass lines a little more interesting. Watch for the bonus homework and prize at the end!
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22 thoughts on “Accompanying Yourself Part 5 (More Advanced Bass Lines)

  • Very interesting and good sounding solutions! Another solution is countermovement in the bass line: When the melody goes up in F (second count), G, A to D, the bass can walk down the scale F (first count), E-Flat, D and C to B-Flat. There's a dissonance on the second count – F and E-Flat together, but it sounds only a short time. Excuse my english! I'm german. I've learned so much from your videos in my short holidays this week. Thank you so much for this.

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  • Hello, Aimee! I would like to ask you about bassline for comping over dominant chords . I noticed, that some pianists use regular fifth in bassline, while their right hand plays voicing with b13 (or #5)
    . For example, on G7+9 – Cm7 in right hand will be B-Eb-F-A# for G7+9 chord. Is it normal to play in left hand something like this G-D-Bb-B-C? I ask this becouse of dissonanse beetwen voice D in left hand and Eb in right hand. Is it better to play Db instead of D in left hand line? (sounds a little tense)

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  • Wow. I know I have a long way to go with this, what would you recommend to do to help get a solid understand of the different chords (M, m, dominant) in each key?

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  • Dear Aimee, I'm learning lots from all your videos and really loving it. I can't thank you enough for them. I notice that most of your accompaniments for singing are walking bass lines, which are quite a modern sound. I was wondering if you could offer some tutorials on accompaniments for more traditional jazz standards e.g. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Right Myself a Letter, All of Me etc. I'm guessing that these would be more of a stride technique, which looks quite tricky. Thanks so much!

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  • Couple of cats who were real good at this sort of thing — Mozart and Bach.Check out fugues and inventions – crazy stuff, man!!!

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  • just wondering; if you have a chance you could make a vid with a list of cherry picked songs by you (10jazz/10blues) that are for a person interested in 20th century jazz. like a book of short stories but songs for a jazz/blues naiveté

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  • Great video Aimee. One tip that I find helpful for transcribing bass lines: You can transpose an mp3 file up by (say) 1 octave using software such as Audacity (it's free!) By doing that it often makes the bass line really pop out. It changes the pitch without changing the tempo.

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  • Thanks for this Aimee, I've been battling with walking bass lines for some time now and struggled when there was 2 bars on the same chord. You have helped with that. Thank you

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  • Luv this one, the guy who commented about the original base line I think was right but hey if it's jazz do what you want with it!
    Hope you agree?

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