1:06 Half-Bar Changes Using Chromatics Example 1 6:57 Example 1 Slow Tempo 7:22 Walking Bass Lines Using Chord Tones Example 2 14:43 Example 2 Slow Tempo 15:24 Walking Bass Lines Using Scales Example 3 21:48 Example 3 Slow Tempo
Many thanks! As a Viennese you grow up with lots of classical music. I always wanted Poo, Rock, Jazz in our music class in school, but it was always just classical music. Until the pandemic Vienna had the highest per capita jazz clubs, though. Unfortunately a lot of them had to close their dolrs forever.
Tried to understand the walking bass concept years ago as a bass player and failed. Now I’m learning jazz guitar and you’ve explained it to me very clearly. I cannot thank you enough. Wish I’d found this channel sooner
Maestro Sandra herself, live 'n direct. Great lesson indeed! And that's how my weekend was made. Thanks to you for the lesson, much appreciated indeed. And thanks to the technology (in our era) for making it possible that the Maestro sitting in Austria can make my weekend here in Zambia...Bless you more and more. Long life!
I watched your video on Walking Bass over a Minor Blues a while ago and was hoping for a tutorial on how to create walking bass lines in general. You din't disapoint! This video is exactly what I needed. Thanks so much!!
It's so good to see you again! I watched at least one of your lessons EVERY week for a couple of years and learned a LOT of songs from you. Then I moved and life was crazy for numerous reasons, and I've settled back into learning more Jazz. As always, this was a SUPERB Lesson. You explain things very clearly and at the perfect pace for me to grasp things and not have to pause or back up like some other Teachers I've seen. Thank You for all you do, and may God Bless You.
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman Thank you so much! I sincerely enjoy every one of your lessons. I shared this one with a friend. I hope he subscribes. (I LOVE Austria! I was stationed in Germany for 3 years and went to Austria several times. I now live in an area of Colorado which reminds me VERY much of Austria & Bavaria. It's absolutely Beautiful. Thank you for your response. Have a Blessed Day.)
You are so incredible! I bought 2 walking Bass books and watched other videos and could not figure how to walk. You have saved me so much time and $, lol! Thank you for your fun and fabulous lessons 😁
I really enjoy the walking bass lines with chords. Not only does it sound cool, but it also serves as a great looped backing track for soloing and as a dexterity exercise for practice. Thanks again Sandra!
Hi Sandra, thank you so much for all the great teaching that you provide to the jazz guitar community. I would respectfully suggest that, at the beginning of a video like this one, you start with a demonstration of the technique so that when you are explaining it step-by-step, we will understand what the result should sound like. Just like when you do a tutorial of a song. At the beginning, play the exercise just to provide a demonstration of the technique.
this was an eye opener! i could already level 1 but your explanation of level 2 was stellar! major or minor triads, why did nobody show me this before. simplifies choices so much, forget the extensions.. now i can use my own brain to work out things moving forward, thankyou very much ❤ crazy thing is now ive watched your video im questioning why i didnt have the brains to work it out myself.. youve certainly given me a lightbulb moment, switched my brain on! im subscribed and will be back for more.. great teacher, best wishes.
Hey, glad you like it and find it useful 😊. Nothing to worry about yourself. How would you know? You can use this concept also for soloing. Play chord tones and use a chromatic before going to the next chord.
First time I saw this video it was way above my reach. Thankfully after learning and practicing comping it makes a lot of difference. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, exactly! 👏 As I always say, chords are key to everything. Now you can focus on the bassline, bc the chords are easy now. Keep swinging and happy Thanksgiving, Stuart! 🦃🦃🦃
I hear women can read thoughts. Must be true, because just yesterday I was thinking about looking for a book or tutorial on this topic. You can imagine my excitement when the notification popped up on my ipad, that my favorite teacher came up with a walking bass tutorial. Thank you, Ms Sandra!
Great lesson for beginners in jazz guitar.Do you have any example for a 7 strike g guitar with walk-in bass line on 6-7 strings and 3 notes chords down?
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman Thank you, Sandra, for making these lessons. I love jazz guitar, but I have limited money to pay for lessons because I am from a developing country (the Philippines). Your lessons are very good and very clear. Many jazz guitarist lessons on RU-vid are very confusing. Many of them are good jazz guitarists, but in my humble opinion, some are not good teachers. I love that you share the basic principle of the walking bassline + chords, which we can expand on and add our own interpretation. You are an excellent jazz guitar teacher, one of the best in youtube. Thank you for sharing. Greeeetttiinggs from the Philippines :)
so put down tonic for each chord , approach them above or below chromatically by 1/2 step. and instead of playing a scale , play the arpeggio of the chord approaching the target chord by a 1/2 step. i hope i got that correctly, .... from texas , many thanks sandra
I wish I had found you when I started studying jazz guitar! One of the things I really liked about this lesson is that you sang occasionally along with your playing. I think it should be done more often! Thank you
Good explanation of the different ways to walk the bass - plenty of concentration needed I suspect for those without a good theory grounding. I'd suggest that people master the bass line to the point it becomes second nature before throwing the chordal stabs in.
That's a good point. If got have a good rest, it may help over a lack of theory knowledge. Learning the baking without the chord stands first is a really good idea. Keep swinging, my friend 🎶🎸
Great lesson thanks. I'm also interested in playing a chord after every beat when using scale tones - 4 bass notes and 4 chords giving a strong shuffle feel to create a different texture. What would you recommend as chords for this and particularly the passing bass notes please. Also walking chords (one different chord per beat) over static harmony - say middle 8 of A Train. Thanks
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman I am in them last 2 parts of Misty! Really frustrating Sandra because I have issues with my left hand pinky. The pinky is always late in arriving at the note in the line of the song that goes "You can say that you're leading me on..." That word "leading is wher ethe pinky arives late. That note! LoL!. It is getting faster with repetition but if you do the math, I've been working on the song for close to a year now. Imagine 30 plus years of playing just cowboy chords and Maj7 chords was as close to jazz as I got then all of sudden now chord melodies with tons of jazz chords. It's like I am learning how to play the guitar from the beginning. That is why I stopped posting on youtube for now. I decided I will not post until I get this chord melody completed. This walking base will add variety in my daily practice. Richie Zellon's online course is difficult as I do not 1:1 with him and basically just learn on my own and since it is a university type course, it's tough, but I am learning more about the theory behind it. Enjoying the journey though! Cheers!
i join many others in saying FINALLY i have a shot a walking bass. BUT two questions: 1. in playing thru the First Level it feels like i am playing two beats per chord and int he Second Level it fells like 4 beats per chord...why? 2. Is the half diminished the only exception to bass line being root, third, fifth, transiton note or are there others? Many thanks for all the work you have posted, but especially this lesson.
1) 2 beats per chord bc each chord is only a half bar of a 4/4 meter. A full bar has 4 beats of course. 2) What's on the 4th beat totally depends on the upcoming chord. But it's usually a semitone below or above the upcoming chord. Hope that helps. Please understand that I usually don't give written lessons in the comment section. But you can take Skype lessons ;-) You can find my email address in the chanbel description.
Sandra, thank you so much for this, and all of your other fantastic videos .. You've helped me so much in getting over the block I have always seemed to have when approaching jazz ... You are on my Mount Rushmore of great youtube guitar teachers !! ( along w/ Troy Grady, Camillo James and Brian from Active Melody )
Ahhh... lunch was good today Sandra! I’d like to emphasize the importance of this lesson to any budding bassists. This is great info for both guitar and bass - in context to each other! (Might want to get that knee looked at - pop!).
Amazing lesson!! Thank you so much!! I guess in real situation, we combine all 3 ways in one tune depending on the length of bars right? I found the 2nd way is primary.
Absolutely! Use whatever gives the best line and connects best to the next chord. Also you decide what sounds best to your ears. This is just a pool of possibilities you can choose from!
Thank you for your lessons! We’re all here learning lots from you! One request I would like to make is, could you play the full version first and then break it down rather than the other way around. Some more advanced players could skip the breakdown bit and move through the examples faster this way 😉 thanks again 🙏
I just saw it and it's jaw dropping! So much feeling in that one ❤️. He has such a jazz voice. Maybe not so much in Autumn Leaves than in Moon River and Nature Boy. Playing a jazz standard with him once is high up on my bucket list!
Another great lesson, there is a lot to unpack here, possibly another candidate for transposing to knock down the technical stuff. Thank You again...! B-)
QUESTION: In your example where you walk from C minor up to F, your chromatic approach tone is E natural, which is the major third of C. Do you worry that the minor character of the harmony is comprised by the E natural?
I notice you tend to use an electric guitar. Is it realistic to do this kind of chord melody on acoustic, or it generally too hard given the greater amount of pressure that the acoustic strings need?
I'm a jazz guitarist, so I ist a jazz guitar 🎸 😊. They're semi acoustics or archtop. I have a video on the differencies. You can of course use an acoustic guitar, as long as you don't run out of frets. Some have only 12 frets till the body connection. If you have a steel string guitar you can somewhat change the space between the strings and the fretboard, by adjusting the truss rod. On a classical nylon string guitar that's not possible.
Hi sandra! A question, Should I memorise a pattern on every side of the root note in all the 5 positions in dom7 maj7 min7? Thanks for a very logic lesson
GuitarVersum Sandra Sherman Yes i mean chord tones on every side of the root note . Do you remember all the walking bass trix (chord tones chromatics diatonic etc) like a lick that takes you from one chord to another?
Yes, I memorize the visuaks from, like a I7 chord to the IV7 cord. But I also know the chord tones and the scale to use. Do I can pretty much improvise a Walking Bass line.
I wanted to share your wonderful stuff with the rest of the world so went looking for you on Facebook - no luck. Please start a page. Others need to know about you!!!
I did that already. Please just type "Take five Guitarversum " into the YT search box. Do so with every song you want to learn. I have hundreds of songs up on my YT channel.
No worries 😊. It was constructive criticism. Btw, this is an older video. For the past 2 or 3 years all my tutorials have the song at the beginning and, if it's a fast song, a slow version at the end.
I'm sorry that this lesson isn't right for you. Maybe you need some basic theory knowledge? Please understand that for jazz you should have basic knowledge of musical theory and chords etc.
@@GuitarversumSandraSherman I have no clue about music theory, and that's why I normally like your stuff. And I disagree whit you, for jazz not the theory, but the right feeling... I will continue watching your videos do, because you are a good teacher :-) and I learned much from you, even do I don't understand the music theory... ;-)
you are showing things far too fast, at least put some chords schematics on top as even my eyes cannot follow your speed. far far to fast and skittish to make this this valueaqlbe lesson. It's only for really advance players which makes this lessons pointless as advance players who can follow this crazy speed that also should already have this skill. shame, as this content its targeting very few out of hundreds people who wants to learn. Consider being more understanding that your audience could be a little slower than you as they came here to learn something , so considering slowing down a bit might give you much more , At this tempo this isn't lesson for me.Too annoying.
Thank you fir the feedback. Unfortunately most people don't watch lengthy slow talking videos. You can always hit the pause button. As mentioned in the video, there is a Tab with chord diagrams. The link is in the video description (right belkw lr to the right side of the video. You'll need to click "more" or the little arrow to unfold that info box abd see the link. Also, you shouldn't attempt Walking Bass, if you don't already knlw the basic shell voicing. The chords in the video are the simplest jazz chords there are. Check lutmy Blues Tutorials playlist with beginner friendly Blues videos. This one here isn't for beginners!
