Scott, you drive that thing like a beemer on the windie through the curves while finding the apex of the turns and smoothing out the tighties making them lucies all the while holding the pocket and driving the groove, you are an animal. thanks again!
Oh my gosh! how timely. I need to learn walking bass line and have tried other videos and it did not click for me until this video. Thank you sooo much. Much respect.
Doing this on my NXT upright at the moment. It makes me think about open notes and dropping down to the 5th instead of the natural thing of going up. The chromatic leading tones really make you think more on upright.
Oh man, I was wondering how you would handle the Am7b5 at such an early point in a lesson, and it was so perfect! And chromaticism was explained so well! I send a lot of my students to your channel to review our lessons, and I'm glad I do!
Just to let you know, this is so easy to understand at the pont that earlier today I was asked out of the blank to play 3 jazz standards tomorrow on bass and, I'm a saxo and I've never played a walking jazz line on bass and of course I'm walking them all now thanks to you!!
There is one trick that I figured out on my own (but later saw a video of you teaching it), which is the 5 pentatonic shapes. In terms of bang-for-buck, it's hard to imagine walking bass lines being that good. I mean, I went from being locked into one or two positions, to being able to move pretty freely across the neck in just a few hours. Within a month, all of my fumbling for notes and getting lost on the fretboard have almost vanished and my bass lines are naturally a lot more interesting now. And I only practice a few times a week due to life...
When describing how to find the 5th above the root, at 4:53, Scott says it is three frets up. NO, it is two frets up. They way Scott is counting, the root is "one fret up" from itself. You are moving up one string (a fourth), then two half steps (two frets) to get to the fifth. Obviously, Scott knows where the 5th is, but he is describing it in a bad way which is confusing to people trying to follow along.
Man i love your videos. I just bought a bass a couple months ago. I havent been playing much but I still watch your videos literally everyday. I follow a few music youtube accounts but i find myself always just watching these videos.
MIND = BLOWN, this is absolutely a great tutorial for a beginner bass player, just discover this channel recently and I absolutely fall in love with this, thanks for the amazing content ! keep it up
My god! I learned something today. Something that probably everyone but me knew. That is, when you play a string on one fret then the one above is a fifth but the one below is a fourth. I always thought it was a fourth in both directions. Thanks for that Scott. 👍🏻
I'm going back to this stuff as feel I never learned and applied the 'basics' properly. Lately I've noticed walking the whole 'form' of a tune like Autumn Leaves, in one position on the fingerboard, is a really good exercise. Anyway, thank you so much for this. Bloooody brilliant!
I am a middle class guitarist but I love the bass sound. With just 3 of your videos first time I understand bass guitar^^ You are a really good teacher. Maybe of you I start up with bass guitar? thx even for that, you're a good guy.
Great!. A simple lesson, straight to the point, and really helpful. Walking basslines is really one of the basics one must learn. I can create them for a song, but I should practice improvising over chords on different styles o music I don't usually play, so I can get a different kind of feel or groove or swing with each style.
@@lucalull13 Wow, I forgot all about my comment. Anyway, I don't know...I'm really bad at theory. Maybe I'll stick the audio into my DAW and try to reverse engineer it (my DAW has a chord detector..never actually used it, but now I will). I know you can look at his fingers, but I always do something wrong when I try to replicate what he's doing.
Great lesson and excellent, concise formula of employing root-3rd-5th + related chromatic to walk through changes. Bonus points for raised-eyebrow technique for differentiation between major and minor sounds! Love your lessons Scott. After test driving these videos and freebies for a few weeks, I'm sold and will be signing up for the whole megillah this week.
Very nice Scott i like the way you explained demonstrate this lesson.. a friend tried to explain this to me but i never understood what he meant... now it makes complete sense and i'm going to get working on this thanks so much. greetings from New Zealand from and ex Bristol lad. cheers Big Si
Thanks Scott, it's a great lesson, and one I will be visiting a good few times. I hope you're all enjoying your new home. Best wishes from the South, in Surrey :-) .
Wow! Just came across your channel and I subscribed. This is so informative. I have been playing guitar for many many years, but I am a very poor bass player. Bass is such a different instrument. You are an extremely good teacher and talented musician. I am not surprised you have so many subscribers. You'll hit half a million soon!
I played in a semi professional swing band for over 10 years, root-5th is absolutely your bread and butter. Trick is to add some vegetables and a little desert from time to time 😊
Fantastic intro--love that it gives me some drills to run. I'm a bluegrass bassist trying to "level up". Definitely going to check out your website. Cheers!
In my second year of bass & always wondered what the "connecting" note was between chords. Normally I just hacked at it until it sounded right. Thanks for telling it was a chromatic note. Great hint about dropping to the note below when there isn't one between.
This isn't just for bass players. Anyone who _really_ wants to play jazz needs to understand the function of the bass in the band, and Scott's method works whether you're a horn player or keyboard player. Jamey Aebersold takes you through a similar method in his books to really learn the chord changes of a song, but it's geared towards horn players; this method gives you useful bass lines from Day 1. I've got a bass, but I'll be applying this to my trombone and piano practice as well. Scott, is that a fretless P-Bass?
Scott, you drive that thing like a beemer on the windie through the curves while finding the apex of the turns and smoothing out the tighties making them lucies all the while holding the pocket and driving the groove, you are an animal. thanks again!
wow. Just... wow Scott. That has to be the easiest and simplest way to start walking bass Ive ever seen. this is what Ive been looking for. Thanks!
No worries Brian, great to hear you enjoyed it! :)
Enjoyed? INSPIRED!
Oh my gosh! how timely. I need to learn walking bass line and have tried other videos and it did not click for me until this video. Thank you sooo much. Much respect.
Amazing how one of the 23 kevin's personalities is teaching how to play the bass :D
lol!
Francisco Uribe 24 if you include the beast 😏
Francisco Uribe i was thinking the fucking same from the first moment i discover this channel 😂😂😂
Me too María.
Haha this is probably the best thing I've ever seen!
Doing this on my NXT upright at the moment. It makes me think about open notes and dropping down to the 5th instead of the natural thing of going up. The chromatic leading tones really make you think more on upright.
Oh man, I was wondering how you would handle the Am7b5 at such an early point in a lesson, and it was so perfect! And chromaticism was explained so well! I send a lot of my students to your channel to review our lessons, and I'm glad I do!
Just to let you know, this is so easy to understand at the pont that earlier today I was asked out of the blank to play 3 jazz standards tomorrow on bass and, I'm a saxo and I've never played a walking jazz line on bass and of course I'm walking them all now thanks to you!!
There is one trick that I figured out on my own (but later saw a video of you teaching it), which is the 5 pentatonic shapes. In terms of bang-for-buck, it's hard to imagine walking bass lines being that good. I mean, I went from being locked into one or two positions, to being able to move pretty freely across the neck in just a few hours. Within a month, all of my fumbling for notes and getting lost on the fretboard have almost vanished and my bass lines are naturally a lot more interesting now. And I only practice a few times a week due to life...
"how to Play walking bass" plays sitting
the one that walks is the bass, not the bassist ;-)
@@eugene-d thanks for helping us out here!
Real jazz bassists actually walk while walking the bass
@@InsaneH Kind of awkward with an upright
@@vadatrip But how impressive!
Brilliant! You start with this and expand from there you just can't go wrong.
it's mind blowing to think how great of a teacher you are.
Friend your videos have changed my life each one in its own way! Do not stop!
OK this is more gold dust. Coupled with visualizing the chords across the fingerboard; really opens it up.
When describing how to find the 5th above the root, at 4:53, Scott says it is three frets up. NO, it is two frets up. They way Scott is counting, the root is "one fret up" from itself. You are moving up one string (a fourth), then two half steps (two frets) to get to the fifth.
Obviously, Scott knows where the 5th is, but he is describing it in a bad way which is confusing to people trying to follow along.
Thanks for walking us through this! 😏
lol... see what ya did there ;)
Scott's Bass Lessons please tell me how do you link gm bar seven into g7 bar eight with out jumping frets?
He Scott, what’s a good brand for bass amps
Man i love your videos. I just bought a bass a couple months ago. I havent been playing much but I still watch your videos literally everyday. I follow a few music youtube accounts but i find myself always just watching these videos.
OMG I have learned so much, I’ve only been transcribing walking bass lines but never could improvise, this is the first step! Thank you!
MIND = BLOWN, this is absolutely a great tutorial for a beginner bass player, just discover this channel recently and I absolutely fall in love with this, thanks for the amazing content ! keep it up
Btw I am curious of the glove you were wearing on your left hand, does that affect the tone or is it use for protecting your finger?
My god! I learned something today. Something that probably everyone but me knew. That is, when you play a string on one fret then the one above is a fifth but the one below is a fourth. I always thought it was a fourth in both directions. Thanks for that Scott. 👍🏻
I'm going back to this stuff as feel I never learned and applied the 'basics' properly. Lately I've noticed walking the whole 'form' of a tune like Autumn Leaves, in one position on the fingerboard, is a really good exercise. Anyway, thank you so much for this. Bloooody brilliant!
hahabass you missed an opportunity to say applied the ‘bassics’ properly
Thank's mister Scott. I follow you as much as i can. You allow me to make a lot of progress. Continue again!
Thank you so much!
Nice :)
just today I wanted to practice my walking bass a lot. Thanks!
I am a guitar player, but I really enjoy your lessons and I learn an awful lot!! Thanks a lot, Scott, and regards from Argentina!
I am a middle class guitarist but I love the bass sound.
With just 3 of your videos first time I understand bass guitar^^
You are a really good teacher.
Maybe of you I start up with bass guitar?
thx even for that, you're a good guy.
Great!. A simple lesson, straight to the point, and really helpful. Walking basslines is really one of the basics one must learn. I can create them for a song, but I should practice improvising over chords on different styles o music I don't usually play, so I can get a different kind of feel or groove or swing with each style.
Though I am playing walking bass for decades I am amazed about how musically just root ad 5th sound if you give it some rhythmical attitude.
amazing how you posted this video exactly one day before my exam about walking bass, thank you so much!
Ha - WIN! Awesome man :)
2:20 .."We play chords, but we don't do it all in one...." Then he does it, and that sounds pretty dang cool! Do THAT more often!
Lol... ok, i'll get some chords going on next time for ya ;)
Awesome! Looking forward to it!
@DavidNika can you tell what chords are those?
@@lucalull13 Wow, I forgot all about my comment. Anyway, I don't know...I'm really bad at theory. Maybe I'll stick the audio
into my DAW and try to reverse engineer it (my DAW has a chord detector..never actually used it, but now I will).
I know you can look at his fingers, but I always do something wrong when I try to replicate what he's doing.
@@davidnika446 Well if u can do that thing of detect the chord u would help me much. Thx anyway
Great lesson, thank you! I dusted off my old bass recently that I bought years ago and your videos have been a huge help.
I have never seen such usefull, efficient, easy to watch, fun, channel as this one. Love your videos!
Awesome vid Scott. As a beginner bassist this exercise was really revealing. Thanks a lot!
It is soooo much fun watching you and learning, Thank you.
Scott, as always, a FANTASTIC approach to getting it. I continue to learn from you. Thanks!
Great lesson and excellent, concise formula of employing root-3rd-5th + related chromatic to walk through changes. Bonus points for raised-eyebrow technique for differentiation between major and minor sounds! Love your lessons Scott. After test driving these videos and freebies for a few weeks, I'm sold and will be signing up for the whole megillah this week.
Lol... thanks for the bonus points man. Groove on! :)
That's the best 10 minutes of my life as always great video!
GREAT FORMAT, 10 min video is perfect
I LOVE that bass... It's so nice :D
Scott, you truly are the best.
Cheers Harry :)
Just ... wow ... thank you! You're a masterful teacher.
Best lesson on the subject i've seen in a good while.Thanks again Scott, cheers from Oregon,USA.
Ahhh cheers Cy :)
Scott,
Thanks for your time and talent of making things much easier to grasp and apply!
No worries Jason! Thanks for joining in the conversation :)
Well that was an eye opener. Amazing lesson... as always. Thx
Awesome tutorial. Learned more about walking bass in 10 minutes then up until now.
glad to be a member, mate :)
The two in the bar exercise is wonderful!
Very cool Scott. You make it simple.
Great lesson!!! And a baseline to my favorite jazz song no less
Exactly what I needed...
Thanks man!
Awesome... have fun in the shed man :)
Love your videos I've learned so much from you
Ahhh awesome! :)
Is Right J.
Scott's Bass Lessons can i for the bass academy monthly by pay pal?
**pay for the bass......**
J-Rod24
Very nice Scott i like the way you explained demonstrate this lesson.. a friend tried to explain this to me but i never understood what he meant... now it makes complete sense and i'm going to get working on this thanks so much. greetings from New Zealand from and ex Bristol lad. cheers Big Si
Thanks Scott, it's a great lesson, and one I will be visiting a good few times. I hope you're all enjoying your new home. Best wishes from the South, in Surrey :-) .
Best UA-cam bass teacher. Thank You Scott!
Ahhh thanks!
Great lesson! And as always just out right fun to watch!
Just joined the academy. Really looking forward to learning how to play the bass. Thanks for these videos!
Those tapewounds fit you perfectly Scott!
very,very sympatic mr.Scott......thank you for this lessons
I just picked up my first upright.
This video will be an excellent starting point for me..
Thank you for this Video Scott. I am very impressed.
Thank you,
Greetings from Austria
I Need Thoses Strings right nowwwwww !!!! Merci beaucoup PBass on top !
Wow! Just came across your channel and I subscribed. This is so informative. I have been playing guitar for many many years, but I am a very poor bass player. Bass is such a different instrument. You are an extremely good teacher and talented musician. I am not surprised you have so many subscribers. You'll hit half a million soon!
I love your lessons man keep the videos coming
i like this , and where it is going i just love jazz , i am still a want to be,so much to learn,thanks Scott !!
Hey Scott thanks for the lessons
you help me a lot
I've been hoping for this lesson for quite some time
Thanks Scott!
Ah got the tape wounds!! Thanks for all the content, signing up for the membership next paycheck after how helpful your free vids have been. Cheers!
Matching headstock looks gorgeous on a fender
Scotti you are really awesome... I will be joining your classes soon...
Awesome Scotti! :)
Thank you so much Sir for this lesson. I really need it. Gbu
You are awesome. Really helping me understand. Thanks!
Great job Scott. Thanks
Great lesson Scott!
Excellent presentation. Thank you!
I played in a semi professional swing band for over 10 years, root-5th is absolutely your bread and butter. Trick is to add some vegetables and a little desert from time to time 😊
Fantastic teacher. Thanks a lot.
Always sounds so good!!!!!
You, Sir, are a maestro!!
Aggghh! At work and can't wait to shed this one.
AWESOME!! Thank you very much!
Awesome lesson mate, thanks!
Scott, you're the man!!! Cheers
Who knew? Well, you did. And now I know too! Thanks for sharing a brilliant lesson.
Fantastic intro--love that it gives me some drills to run. I'm a bluegrass bassist trying to "level up". Definitely going to check out your website. Cheers!
that was SO good!
amazing lesson. good show, Scott.
thank you! enjoyed it as always!
In my second year of bass & always wondered what the "connecting" note was between chords. Normally I just hacked at it until it sounded right. Thanks for telling it was a chromatic note. Great hint about dropping to the note below when there isn't one between.
That's it Paul! Great to hear the lesson did the trick for ya :)
"Excellent information on "walking bass" you are a great teacher and musican!
THANK YOU FOR TEACHING ME THIS!!!!
Top Guy! Couldn't break it down any easier!! 😎
This is so helpfull! Thanks Scott!
Cheers Carsten :)
This isn't just for bass players. Anyone who _really_ wants to play jazz needs to understand the function of the bass in the band, and Scott's method works whether you're a horn player or keyboard player. Jamey Aebersold takes you through a similar method in his books to really learn the chord changes of a song, but it's geared towards horn players; this method gives you useful bass lines from Day 1. I've got a bass, but I'll be applying this to my trombone and piano practice as well.
Scott, is that a fretless P-Bass?
Just put tapes on my J bass a couple days ago and loving the tone and feel
Yes man - tapes are soooooo fun!
Really well explained - I've wondered how this magic works!
That video was really helpful, thanks Tom for making those!!
Greetings from France o/
Best bass teacher ever
DUDE! U ROCK! U just saved me a bumch o'money!!!
Bloody great easy to digest tutorial :-)
This helped me so much, thanks!
Thanks Scott!!!
Sweet! Love this lesson.
Amazing! SImple, powerful - I love it!~