Take Your Walking Bass Lines To the NEXT LEVEL

#bass #jazz #walkthrough #uprightbass #voiceleading #goodnotes #paulthompson
Transform your walking bass lines and CONTROL THE MUSIC! Have you ever felt like you're just keeping up with the chord changes? Let's talk about creating interesting, directional lines without even leaving the half position! Why does a scale work for walking bass? What's the PAUL CHAMBERS "hack" for coming back to the root? Is it possible to walk a "Rhythm Changes" in one position without jumping more than a THIRD?
I'll answer all these questions and MORE along with playing a few questionable 'C's on my A-string 🙄
Also, stick around for a very special shout out to the fabulous bassists of Penn State University (Insta @psubass) and Joel Quarrington?!. Yep.
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[@IsleOfEverything]

Perfect timing! I'm stuck in a holiday cottage in the middle of nowhere in the Welsh countryside... In the pouring rain... With no bass. You just re-connected me. Many thanks for that!

[@penguiyebass]

I've always fantasized about taking a chomp out of some Welsh grass, in your opinion does it hold up to the hype?

[@iainctduncan]

So much good stuff in 6 minutes. The best thing about these lessons is that there is NO FLUFF. Instead of fast forwarding all the time over the sales pitch, I'm rewinding to see the goods again! The Paul Chambers? the What? Oooohh. Please keep up your style man. It's such a refreshing change.

[@pdbass]

🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

[@LawrenceHenryJamesMalcheff]

4:11 the intro to Stuffy Turkey by Thelonious Monk. HAHA! AWESOME! I JUST GOT STARTED paying bass about 3 months ago and I wondered what those chord changes were!

[@alazel22]

Man, I love your channel! I'm a wannabe musician and you provide me hope in my musical ventures... : )

[@dtsdigitalden5023]

You have to crawl before you walk, and walk before you run. I'm still in the pre-crawl stage, but you inspire like no other! Thanks for this!!!

[@patriciaweitzel]

Thank you so much for the shout out, Paul! Hope to see you again here in a future opportunity!

[@seanroderick4217]

Damn man that’s some of the most valuable 5 minutes I’ve seen. Thank you!!

[@Bi_scotti_5]

Hallelujah! I'm trying to get serious about jazz with a group of friends, and this video could not have come out at a better time. Thanks for making these videos!

[@bassocanario]

Conceptually, Ron Carter and Rufus Reid are two players who also talk about this kind of stuff. Rufus is a big advocate of writing your own walking lines. Both talk about limitation exercises as you do(limiting neck/fingerboard position, range, direction, vertical vs. horizontal, one string, etc.). And the ideas you discuss work well for bassline construction in general... ALWAYS great stuff here, thanks!

[@ultramet]

Man you are exactly the bass teacher that I always wanted but never hard. I got there but it took me longer than most. Love your channel. ❤ 🔥

[@tjsmith3741]

I’ve been working on Ed Friedland’s book “building walking baselines”for months. It’s one of the toughest things I’ve had to learn.

[@neilsaunders6009]

That's a good book!

[@FrancoGrimoldi]

I also started with that book. After a few years failing to feel/sound right, I started un-learning all I got from there. The one aspect that I really don't like about the book is that the examples are not musical, they don't sound right, they don't "speak the language". You can't get into a jam session playing lines from the book, that simply doesn't feel/sound right to me. I developed my own method, all language oriented: . Lines over static chords (such as demoed here!): Major, minor, dominant. . Lines over rhythm changes bridges: 2 bars each, all dominant chords, moving through the cycle of 4ths. . 1-bar lines to "move up a 4th": chromatic ascending, scale based, arpeggio based, diatonic descending. . "Autumn Leaves" progression. . "All the things you are" 8 bar progression moving up in 5ths. . Repertoire: use all the above to solve song-specific changes. I've found it WAY easier to learn/play/teach using musical lines to begin with, no need to re-learn anything and you start to play "by ear/heart" very quickly. I strongly recommend Teymur Phell's "Killer Walking Bass Lines". It's a language-oriented book with great sounding lines over common chord progressions.

[@tjsmith3741]

@@FrancoGrimoldi Thx! I see what you mean about the Freidland book..

[@hubbsllc]

I was in college jazz ensemble and I really liked playing walking lines but I was never sure if I knew what I was doing and I still don't. My walking bass hero for decades has been Alphonso Johnson; he seemed to always know exactly what to do and yet it wasn't at all repetitive; it was like he was having a spirited conversation.

[@everettevansky9324]

I will be watching and rewatching this lesson for years. Thank you sir 🎶🎵

[@toddvidclack]

Hey Paul, would you do a video on the history of walking bass lines? I have always wondered who did it first or planted the seeds that lead to the technique.

[@pdbass]

Great idea! 🙏🏽

[@johnvenditto2908]

Love the 'bass face' and this video. Thanks!

[@bassdocta]

Damn, Paul, perfect distillation!

[@OrganicFaithFactory]

❤❤❤ great tips thanks

[@hubertried19]

this is a mighty concept, thanks a lot! I did not get it on the first view. Figured out there are 16 ways to combine the two chord tones out from 1,3,5,7 ... Need to do some practice now 🙂

[@MartoneBass]

Great video, I can't wait to dig into this one!

[@richbrownbass]

Joel Quarrington! 🙌🏾🇨🇦

[@pdbass]

Are you two from the same BADASS BASS PLANET?!

[@richbrownbass]

​@@pdbass Canada does feel like a different planet sometimes. I mean that in a good way.😁 I got to play and hang a bit with Joel on a gig we did together with The Ottawa Symphony. Beautiful player. Beautiful cat.

[@ManfredElsingBielefeld]

wowowow,you´re so good!Thx!

[@billhd]

Chiming in with the others...this was a lesson that came at just the right time for me. Thank you for animating my practice this week!

[@andrewjeffries8721]

Thank you sir for your instruction and for the encouragement to 'next level' my bass playing. We are not playing jazz at church but I do need to step beyond the 1-3-5 thing when I play. God bless you, sir!

[@FAMUCHOLLY]

Thanks professor Paul! Feel better soon.

[@lanebrain55]

good one

[@chrisclermont456]

Another great video!!

[@wernot2wer1]

Nice channel. Rock bassist here, but I have a wide range of influences and channels like this on make it go!

[@andymelendez9757]

Thanks! Joel is awesome! So are you!

[@avialbersbenchamo4797]

Wow! This is a jump! 👌🙂

[@Shira2]

Great lesson thanks! Working on it!

[@merrill-el-richmond8649]

this is great. willl give it a try!

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Full confession, I'm a piano Newbie with no musical talent, but I watch your videos when they pop up. I am just srarting to sight read, and I think your notes were in Chinese. I paused the video to practice, and stil think they're in Chinese, but it's starting to get better. Merci.

[@manuchorod]

That's how we all started. Keep it up at your own pace and enjoy the ride!

[@TooOldFor]

Great stuff! Thanks.

[@cliflottjr4435]

Nice sign, my man!

[@gsahrens]

I don't play the bass but I am obsessed with listening to bass heavy songs. Can any of you fellow bass lovers recommend a nice playlist with more obscure/less known bass heavy songs?

[@IvanovBR]

what a great lesson!!!!!!!!

[@bassocanario]

Thanks!

[@vincentcolletti7664]

Great lesson, just got the same one from my teacher.

[@mrjace3]

Amazing video as always! I was wondering if you could review the bassline in Naked Eyes Promises Promises? Thanks for all of your knowledge 👍🏽

[@DrumTipTuesday]

Very nice Paul! ...and I see you coming up on 100K. Keep it going

[@pick2568]

Wish you could have recorded the weekend trip, or portions of it, but you do deserve to enjoy some fun time.

[@walteradmiraal7642]

Super cool

[@manuchorod]

This channel is so great

[@MannyDemaga]

I’m going to study this video carefuly… It’s my first year in the music conservatory and I need to improve as much as posible for my exam and to ease the transition to my second year a bit

[@RetroReminiscing]

👍🎼🤗 Great upload

[@saltyfellow]

Was missing a video from you buddy❤

[@insidejazzguitar8112]

Perfect!

[@ru14jazz]

Can you show how Cecil McBee played bass on Lonnie Liston Smith's 1975 album song Expand your mind?

[@JenkinsLeRoy1]

Would a Thundercat song ever make your channel?

[@nicholastotoro7721]

Some of John Patitucci's walking lines... whew...

[@richardcolemanjr3749]

I know you know of Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen. Oleo is something. Also Jaco Pastorius Punk Jazz is HARD. At 2:50 are those Tuba's on strings? He once said he could play the blues in "F".

[@jefferyboyle7276]

✌🎻🗿

[@miguelbass]

You are beautiful!

[@bigsarge9610]

Man I love you're instruction. I have said this before, always informative, always educational. Thank you.