Building Walking Bass Lines
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Product Description
A walking bass line is the most common approach to jazz bass playing, but it is also used in rock music, blues, rockabilly, R&B, gospel, Latin, country and many other types of music. The term ÕwalkingÕ is used to describe the moving feeling that quarter notes create in the bass part. The specific goal of this book is to familiarize players with the techniques used to build walking bass lines and to make them aware of how the process works. Through the use of 90-mi… More >>
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Building Walking Bass Lines
First of all this book assumes you know how to read music–I have never yet bought a book without tabs. Second every example is in ther key of C. I am so sick of piano books that only teach in the key of C. And especially Guitar and bass as the MAJORITY of us DO NOT read music that is why the TAB system was created. This is lazy and disgusting because the key of C has no sharps and flats. Now I have to tracnscribe all the examples into tab and transpose them.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is useless unless you can read music. Nothing is tabbed. If I could sight-read music, I probably wouldn’t need a book to show me how to waly from chore to chord.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is probably a great book for beginners or for people just learning how to read music. I think most people who listen to music can figure out the infamous r-3, r-5, r-8, progressions just from listening or transcribing bass lines off records. I was fairly disappointed that this was all that he covered in more than great detail in the book. I recommend walking jazz lines for bass, and blues bass. This is not a completely bad book but just is geared toward beginners with probably less than 1 month of playing or who have bad ears.
Rating: 3 / 5
I am a guitarist of many years who has started dabbling in playing bass (out of curiosity and recording necessity) and this book is just perfect for improving my bass fundamentals and my ear for harmony. No special knowledge theoretical is required going in, Friedland explains everything you need to know in the introduction, although approaching it knowing a LITTLE bit of theory (like intervals and the circle of fifths) will make it easier to process the examples.
Aside from some brief explanations at the start of each section, this book is almost entirely applied exercises, and they are paced very nicely for a beginning-intermediate player, and the play-along CD is very nice.
For those reviewers who are complaining about the lack of tabs in this book, it’s true, there are no tabs, but it is a great way to practice sight reading on the bass clef in a gently-paced fashion; you just have to WANT to learn.
Rating: 5 / 5
I was in the market for a publication that would teach me how to develope walking bass lines. This fits the bill. Ed Friedland is known for quality material.
Rating: 5 / 5