Udemy
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
    •  
Turn what you know into an opportunity and reach millions around the world.
Learn More
Your cart is empty.
Keep shopping
Walking Bass - Quick Start Guide
Rating: 4.5 out of 5(114 ratings)
788 students

Walking Bass - Quick Start Guide

Learn to improvise effective walking bass guitar lines on your own using a simple strategy.
Created byBogdan Radovic
Last updated 11/2019
English

What you'll learn

  • Gain necessary foundations for tackling walking bass style in-depth
  • Learn to improvise simple & effective walking bass lines over any backing track
  • Be more confident when jamming or composing bass lines
  • Know how to identify root notes for any given chord
  • Jam over backing tracks or play with a band in a walking bass style
  • Become more familiar with bass fretboard

Course content

5 sections32 lectures1h 5m total length
  • Introduction1:26

    Learn what this course is all about and prepare to get started.

  • Root notes1:51

    Learn what are root notes and how to find a root note for each chord.

  • Root notes: text instructions1:00
    Learn what are root notes and how to find a root note for each chord.
  • Walking Bass Rhythm0:45

    Learn how to play the basic 4 feel walking bass rhythm.

  • Walking Bass Rhythm: text instructions1:00
    Learn how to play the basic 4 feel walking bass rhythm.
  • Following chords with root notes0:28

    Learn the fundamental strategy of navigating chord changes using root notes. This will be the base for all walking bass lines you play.

  • Following chords with root notes: text instructions1:00

    Learn the fundamental strategy of navigating chord changes using root notes. This will be the base for all walking bass lines you play.

  • Practice tune: roots only1:15

    Learn a bass line which is utilizing the root notes strategy.

  • Practice tune: roots only tablature1:00

    Tablature for roots only playing example.

  • Practice backing track5:42

    Practice what you've just learned by playing along the backing track.

  • Finding a root note

Requirements

  • Bass guitar
  • Motivation to learn a cool new skill
  • Computer / Tablet & Internet Connection
  • Be able to find notes such as E, C, G or A on the fretboard in basic positions
  • That's it - you really don't need any bass super powers to attend this course. Let's go for it.

Description

Always wanted to learn how to play walking bass, but it was too difficult?

This course is my personal “instant walking bass” recipe. You’ll learn the basic concepts and strategies that will allow you to improvise simple walking bass lines in just a few weeks of practicing. Yes - you will be IMPROVISING on your OWN! Believe it or not. The strategies I’ll be sharing are not that difficult to master and I’m sure you’ll have that eureka moment when you figure them out - just like I had when I was starting.

Please watch the free preview videos to get a taste for what’s inside.

This course is shot in full HD video, with quality bass playing audio mixed with the backing tracks. The course is split into five chapters, each adding a new element to our “instant-walking-bass” strategy. This means that each chapter is really doable - you just need a bit of practice.

This course includes:

  • PDF, Guitar Pro 5 & Guitar Pro 6 tabs for each playing example
  • Interactive backing track videos for jamming and practice
  • Downloadable backing tracks in mp3 format
  • Text transcripts for each lesson
  • English subtitles
  • Unlimited forum help and instructor feedback

I want you to know that I would love if you would post your questions as you progress through the course. Please feel free to send me messages anytime, I’ll be checking them out and responding quickly. Also, I’d like to encourage you to record audio files or videos (you can post videos on Youtube and share the link) and send them to me for feedback.

I’m here to help YOU, so please don’t be shy :)

This course is meant as an introduction to walking bass. We won’t be going into any complicated theory and walking bass concepts. What you’ll gain are necessary foundations for expanding your knowledge and more importantly - means of cheating your way into walking bass territory. After all, not all of us end up being session musicians or super stars in certain genres. All musicians (even pros), often prefer to take the easy route and learn how to “fake” certain styles. This is what you’ll learn, you’ll learn how to “fake” walking bass type of lines until you are ready for more. I must say, that this can be a lot of fun and a lot of my friends (myself included), never actually feel the need later on to learn specific styles in more depth.

This course, does not rely on any music theory (at least complicated one). This is a problem of many other walking bass courses as those just dig too deep into music theory that it becomes boring. You’ll just need to have a very basic understanding of how to find certain notes on the fretboard (in basic, most often used positions on the neck). Since walking bass heavly relies on chords, you’ll need to have a basic understanding of chords and root notes, but we cover those topics within the course.

Please send me your feedback about the course. What did you like? What did you not like? How could I improve it? Your feedback means a lot to me and I need to in order to better shape the course content for YOU.

Please Enroll Today!

Cheers,

Bogdan

Who this course is for:

  • Bass players looking to get started with walking bass
  • Those bass players who would like to enrich their styles vocabulary
  • Bass players struggling to jam over blues and jazz backing tracks
  • Regular folks just looking to have fun on the bass
  • This course is not for those bass players who are already well versed in jazz walking bass style
  • This course is not for students attending Berklee or any other famous music school, studying "Whiplash" style
  • This course is not for you if you are a jazz-walking-bass-wizzard / live performer.
  • This course is not for you if you are looking to learn in-depth walking bass concepts and tracks