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, RandB, gospel, Latin, country and many other types of music. The term 'walking' 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-minutes' worth of recorded rhythm tracks, players will have the opportunity to put the new learning directly into action. This book literally gives bassists the tools they need to build their own walking bass lines.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77066 in Books
• Published on: 1995-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Customer Reviews

great beginner book for those wanting to learn how to walk
Depending on your knowledge of theory, for me this is by far the best beginner book I have come across. It really communicates to you the different ways to start walking in which many books fail to do. My lesson teacher told me to get it. Of all the walking bass books I've looked at this one makes a lot of sense. Definitely a must buy if you want to learn how to walk bass. Mel Bay Walking Jazz Lines for Bass by Jay Hungerford is also a good book to check out, but definitely get this book by Ed Friedland.

A deceptive rip off
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.

Great theory and practice
This book is very helpful to theory and practice of bass lines whether in jazz or any other. I enjoy playing along with the CD that comes with it. I've used some of the lines to improvise with a guitarist and we simply jam for fun. Its very good and I suggest it for the intermediate player to learn great theory and to help develop new bass lines.