Walking Bass Lines Crash Course - Lesson 3 (L#26)

In the first two lessons of this walking bass 'crash course', we've been practicing on a sequence with only one chord per bar.

Quick recap: in the first lesson, we've played 'only' roots, fiths & thirds and 'passing notes'. In the second lesson, we've added more chromatic notes. Hopefully you've practiced that, explored the variety of options that this gives you, and you're beginning to create walking bass lines that sound really good! Don't forget your swing feel is key!

In this lesson, we're going to work on sequences with 2 chords per bar. Nothing to worry about... That's easy and fun! ;)

We're going to take a I-VI-II-V turnaround in the key of C. The chords are: C Major, A minor, D minor, G7. This turnaround is a verycommon one, so what you'll be learning here will be transposable to many many tunes.

I highly recommend you to practice over backing tracks! If you've got good backing tracks with piano & drums or guitar & drums, great! If not, you may be interested in my backing tracks packages available. Actually, these packages are much more than just backing tracks, but I let you discover them if that's of interest to you.