'Building Walking Bass Lines'

Table of Contents

Section One

Overview

Walking the Blues: From the Bottom Up

More Practice with Roots

Adding the Fifth

More Practice with Fifths

Two New Keys for the Blues

Approach Note / Chromatic Approach

Lines with Chromatic Approach

More Practice with Chromatic Approach

Double Chromatic Approach

Dominant Approach

Lines with Dominant Approach

New Keys for Dominant Approach

Lines with Chromatic and Dominant Approach

Scale Approach

Combining the Approaches

Combining the Approaches -- With Analysis

Rhythm Changes -- Sample Line

Rhythm Changes


Section Two

Overview

Scales You Should Know

Scalewise Motion

Using Scalewise Motion

Lines with Scalewise Motion

More Practice with Scalewise Motion

The Next Step

Scale Motion on Rhythm Changes

Arpeggiation

More Arpeggiation

A word about Chord Progreessions: The II-V-I

Arpeggiation on Rhythm Changes

Advanced Approach Techniques

Using Indirect Resolution

Using Chromatic Motion

chromatic Motion on Rhythm Changes

A Closing


Appendix

Using the Standard Chord Progressions

Standard Progressions 1 .. 10

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