How to make Walking Bass Lines —Practice of playing chord composition—
Next, put your pen and hand your bass.
Let’s practice playing tones composing chords.
Let’s play in time with crotchet of a metronome (time: 100-140).
Let’s see the position of chord composition.
At first, practice playing roots (1st).
If you can play above, next, let’s play only with seeing chord progression.
Could you?
Let’s repeat practicing, until you can.
Next, practice playing 1st and 5th.
As you play 4 tones in a bar, play with 1st-1st-5th-5h.
When a bar includes two chords, play with 1st all.
If you can play above, next, let’s play only with seeing chord progression.
Last, practice playing 1st, 3rd and 5th.
Play with 1st-3rd-5th-3rd in a bar.
When a bar includes two chords, play with 1st-5h-1st-5th.
If you can play above, next, let’s play only with seeing chord progression.
If you can do this, you are already jazz bassist !