One Minute Bass Lesson #8 - Walking Bass Underutilized Shapes

Two often overlooked melodic shapes for walking bass for beginners are Alberti Bass Style Arpeggio (1,5,3..) and an Arpeggio starting on the third (3,1,5...). Add these to your internal vocabulary of walking melodies, and it will be a great way to open new trajectories for your improvised lines. Most of you are probably familiar using Arpeggios in a standard Root, 3, 5 way, so hopefully this opens up some doors!
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[@marctramonte]

Excellent..... I was recently introduced to using 6 more too. Somehow, never really thought of 6 as a useful interval, but it is loaded with potential.

[@jazzbrew68]

I still struggle using notes other than the root when walking bass. I'm so used to hearing the root on the one! That said I'm starting to like sprinkling in a line starting on the 3rd! Good stuff Jeff!

[@JeffDinglerBass]

Nice Eric! The third is definitely very functional and probably the most often used note as a downbeat OTHER than the root. A good way to get to the third on a downbeat in typical progressions is from the 7th of another chord (guarantee this pleasing resolution will help you hear it more). So let's say it's a ii-V-I in C Major. Dm7 you can play the arpeggio D F A C - that last note "C" lends itself perfectly to resolve to a B on beat 1 of the G7- and you can really play any number of phrases from there, these few in the video are examples. Ron Carter likes doing this and you hear phrases like that from him sprinkled all over.