Check out more Walking Bass and Chord Examples on Blues, All The Things You Are and more songs: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z6U_b6KmJHI.html
your lessons are incredibly useful. I'm still not proficient enough at theory to follow you as you go but once I break down it makes a whole lotta sense. Thanks.
Great video. (Dumb) question about the choice to use the F9 in the CM7 bar. It sounds great but I don't think I would have realized that choice. What substitution (theory) are you using?
Thank you! I don't think in substitutions, so I just have different ways to get from Cmaj7 to A7, and this one is a very common progression in Jazz Standards, probably because it flows very naturally in the key.
Thank you, Jens! Loved the tutorial/class on the walking bass line - I am originally a bass player venturing into classical guitar (and now learning Brazilian popular music, which is close to jazz). Cheers!
Great lesson Jens, thank you!😎 You’re the best Jazz guitar teacher out here!😉 I like the way you break concepts down, and then build them back up again. Very understandable.
Im really sorry mister but i just want to give u some advice. At the beginning of the video you can show your amazing guitar playing, then in the middle to the end of the video you can start teaching us theory and tutorials about your playing at the beginning of the video. Thanks
I'm one of those angry bassists! !!!!!!!!! ........... Well, I'm not angry at you. I just stubbed my toe going around the corner, but since you opened the door to angry bass player comments here is one. You just didn't specify what the anger is about. LOL
Joe Pass did a few video tutorials himself and one covered the I,VI, II, V in comping but being Joe it was lacking in educational substance. It was helpful but not enough to get you on the road to success. This is much better. Starts off with the basics and by the end you feel a progression. Brilliant. I've been comping for a while and I know most of this but this reinforces everything in less than 10 minutes. I'd like to acknowledge the best comp player I've seen live is John Etheridge. He played some amazing stuff during a set break that was on the fly. Thanks again Jens.
As a Bass playar I enjoyeded the video Can you do a part 2 of this to and go deeper and more complicated ? Covering tritone subs and enclosure for the bass line ?
Just got into using Martin Taylor’s walking bass lines book. This is the perfect addition and has inspired to take the next steps! Thanks Jens! P.S. fun to use Barry Harris scale of chords and 6 diminished scales to make bass lines and passing chords, etc.
I've been recently struggling on adding melody to basslines... is there something wrong with the rhythem or... anyways.. can you teach how we can add melody to our basslines like lukas brar
Yes, yes and yes! Not only telling the what but how. I'm glad you made this video. Great value! I play guitar in a jazz combo with friends and the other musicians knows your videos as well. Specially the famous quote: 'Learn Jazz make Music' Thank you Jens! 🎸🙏🎼🎶😎
Excellent lesson! When I heard it I had to get my guitar, sit down and work it. You make this very easy to follow with both tabs, notation and your explanations. I'm actually (sort of) doing it. Thank you!
This is so good. I realized I understood what I needed already but didn't understood how to put it all together. This video got me started with a better foundation, Hours of practice and exploration ahead! I see the light! lol Thanks!
Seen Pass play a couple of times. He puts his pick in his mouth and uses his thumb sometimes. He has kinda two styles one picking with a pick the other his fingers... Great player, Great show
Thx so much actually I love the Joe Pass comping, he has been way ahead in arranging - also what not to embellish makes his music so flawless and adds this cool flavor even if he was not a cool jazz player per se. Anyways your videos are illustrative and very well organized, thanks so much
Having a sense of humor is very useful on this channel, but if you feel a strong need to be offended and troll the comments then that is of course how it is 😀
@@Bobby007D Sorry you have to resort to profanity to express yourself. Jens's RU-vid channel is not the place for a list bass players. You'll have to discover the list of great jazz bassists on your own.
this lesson had so much more value if wasn't interrupted every two minutes for begging for subscribing and talking about how you need help. Put me off from following the exercise, cos could not keep the flow. It's like advert every 5 second.
Nice! At 4:59 if you want to loop it (which I assume is the whole idea) you will need the way to climb back from G7 in 3rd position back to Cmaj7 on 8 fret. Question about practice - to automate it (do it on sight on unknown progression) you just need to play through enough examples until you get enough patterns ready in your chops bag - correct?
Thanks Tom! I would actually suggest using the basslines to construct walking lines for (easy?) songs you know and then gradually from there learn to improvise with this material, which is largely putting blocks together.
Great timing! This lesson came right exactly when I needed it! I've been struggling to hear the low end of "real" walking bass lines to find the secret. Until now I've been faking it by connecting everything with random chromatic notes inside a 6 fret span.... And it only sounds good when I accidentally hit a good leading tone, maybe half the time or less.
@@JensLarsen thank you for the reply! And the video; i watched several walking bass videos trying to figure this out and yours was by far the most helpful. Having it broken down into a system with steps is exactly what I needed.
