Piano Walking Bass E-Book

Jesper Kaae

• Herausgeber: Jesper Kaae
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 18

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Walking bass is an essential element in blues and jazz music. The walking bass hitting a new note on every beat of each bar is a moving force in this kind of music. However, as a solo pianist it can be tricky to get the left hand going while playing melody, harmony or even a solo in the right hand. This book will walk you through some of the common walking bass lines starting with easy blues patterns and progressing to more advanced jazz lines. It will guide you with some simple rules to make your own bass lines and it will bend the rules to make more interesting lines as well. Audio files are available at www.jesperkaae.com

Leseprobe

Piano Walking Bass

From blues to jazz

Jesper Kaae

Sonora Publishing

Copyright © 2019 Jesper Kaae

www.jesperkaae.com

Sonora Publishing

All rights reserved

ISBN: 978-87-931-40-17-2

Audio files available at

www.jesperkaae.com

Piano Walking Bass

1. Introduction

2. Chord based walking bass

3. Scale based walking bass

4. Approach notes

5. The 3 rules of thumb

6. The 2-5-1 progression

7. Ornamentation

8. Endings

9. Other intervals

10. Bebob scales

11. Standards

12. What you can’t do

13. Other genres

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Introduction

Walking bass is an essential element in blues and jazz music. The walking bass characterized by a new note on every beat in the bar is a moving force that pushes the music forward and creates richness to the arrangement. In a jazz band the accompaniment of the pianist is often sparse, because of the richness of the bass.

But as a solo pianist you can create some of the same richness by playing a walking bass yourself. Many solo pianists stop developing their left hand after learning a basic octave bass and it may be challenging to play new notes on every beat in the bar in the left hand and at the same time play the melody and harmony or even improvise a solo in the right hand. But the effort will pay off as rich sounding blues and jazz melodies and as a bonus you can fire the other band members.

The arrangements in this book have a progression going from easy to intermediate and going from blues towards jazz and ends with a brief introduction to other genres. We will look at some simple but effective rules for making great walking bass lines and we will bend the rules again to create even more interesting lines.

Audio files for all examples in this book are available at www.jesperkaae.com

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Chord based walking bass

When playing chords on the piano each chord can have different inversions. A triad can be played in root position or in two different inversions. Extended chords have even more inversions.

Root position

First inversion

Second inversion