There’s an exercise 0, which is to play the roots only. There’s a lot of folks who will benefit first from finding the roots in different spots in the neck.
Great stuff. The number of people I’ve run into who want to play 4 notes a bar fast walking bass lines who haven’t come close to mastering a good 2 feel is shocking. You can basically do nothing but 2 feel the whole gig and people who aren’t major music nerds (I.e. virtually every person) are gonna be saying “that bass player was really good.”
AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! You just clarified the mystery that's boggled my brain for years. A long time ago I was speaking to a school teacher that played jazz piano and she asked me if I could play jazz (because of my name) and I said I don't understand walking bass. I told her, all I know is R+5 and she said, "That's enough".
I want to play bass so much right now. That resolve at 10:10 is... perfect. It felt like that feeling right after the shivers. Or when you’re cold and step into the hot sun.
Scott was FIRE when this was recorded. “The amount of times students play the perfect fifth” and “you either can or can’t do it!” NICE!!! You tell ‘em, Scott!!!!
1:56 play each note on different spots in the neck every 8 bars (each chord cycle). warm up with exercise 0 first playing the roots on different spots in the neck
I had a jazz teacher tell me in college "you gotta play more then the root and 5!" but then as soon as I did he said it was too busy so then I went back to what I originally did and he was happy, I've had art teachers tell me I need to add more detail to a drawing so I'll go and sit down and pretend to work bring it back and get told perfect.
@@sicilianmammalian most likely they were happy because they thought this dude just doesn't care enough to push himself to improve. You said it yourself, you went back pretended to work and were told perfect. Some times people will say that because they don't wanna waste any time on someone not willing to try
Mr. Scott! Thanks for Your lessons! I study them more then year and Im happy! Now i live in a small russian city and your SBL community helps me to feel better!
TTHANK YOU SCOTT. This is excellent! I see some questions about the Key. The Am7b5 is the giveaway; A would be the 7th scale degree, so the keynote is Bb. Then it follows the D7 should be Dm7 which is what I think you played, best seen in exercise 2.
Great video … once I finish the fretboard accelerator course i will look to enroll next year … the fretboard accelerator is a great course that is really teaching me the fretboard as well as the triads … “ visualize and verbalize “ 🙂 and hope u don’t wind up in bass jail 🥴 hahaha. SBL rocks.
Thanks Scott, always enjoy yours & the team's stuff. At one point when you were saying root 'n 5 & root 'n 5, part of me was thinking go on say it - say it ... root 'n tootin' ! l know, very sad.
Great video of this simple but musical concept! I'm a big fan of the 2 feel! Its really nice on it's own, but I also love Mixing it up and throwing it in while walking or using it predominantly and then occasionally throwing in some walking. But most import for me is that it's saved my ass on so many gigs when someone called out a tune that I wasn't familiar with and the changes were coming at me quickly.
Scott thank you for this video. I too have struggled with walking bass lines. I have kept a lot of pop gigs, but struggled keeping up with jazz combos. Gotta break out my real book.
Fun lesson! Seems to be some typos in the tab - roots and third page. (Still has you playing 5th). Sorry to be that guy. Just hope you can fix it for future people.
The most important thing is to play the root on one. The band can’t follow if you don’t play the root on one. From there you can play scales, arpeggios whatever.
Sometimes teachers make it seem more complex than it really needs to be. My life motto is “it’s all magic, till it ain’t.” Don’t over think it, just dig the playing and before you know it, it won’t be magic anymore.🤘🏻
Ps, Wanna have some fun with it, try Anthem, by Rush. Granted, it’s more of a lightning fast prog example of the concept, but it’s an absolute blast! (I’ve never liked Jazz, but it’s just me)
Does anyone here remember a Scott's lesson where he plays a sequence and shifts one pattern from the first bar to the second to the third then the fourth?
I am going to learn jazz bass. How do I learn to structure it from absolute scratch? I know some things. But I have bought bass books from chords to arpeggios, and a walking bass line book that comes hginhly recommmeded from a composer. Now I need the practice structure. I am asking you, Scott, what is the best way to begin like a true musician, to begin this misson? I am going to learn jazz music.
Great video! Faulty Workbook! The viedo is great but the notes are all the same for all four exercise pages in the workbook, so for Ex 2,3,4 you can't use it.
Do you have a seperate video I can download for the phone intro into the bassline? I really loved it. And would like to download it even if it was made on the spot.
I keep asking myself "why is that five not a Dm7?"....and always end up reminding myself (after playing the D7) that the major third connecting to the one sounds so much nicer....even in a minor key.
I've always wanted to understand walking bass and had no succes except at stupidly copying existing scores on record without progressing on different chords progressions or ability to be creative and play my own. I've even taken courses with 3 different teachers back in the days when I was in my 20's. Not a single one of them fucking told me about those exercices which make me feel like it is at least POSSIBLE to understand walking bass and actually invent one.
this is funny to me as a jazz bassist, i started filling in so the first thing i learned to do was walking so its natural to be, but tbf i was already a violinist who knew how to improvise
Great lesson Scott, but there's a little problem with the scrolling tab. Instead of Gm6 as on your whiteboard, it's showing G7... Thanks for your excellent tutorials! :-)
@Majority of 1 well isn't that interesting; I've been playing music for nearly 40 years and I've never seen a minor chord written in any way other than with an "m", min, or minor. So I've learnt something today. But I will say that it's a potentially confusing way to write it, and it doesn't use any less characters, so seems pointless. Also it's confusing for the same video to use both methods; consistency is king! Thanks for educating me, and for your concern about my eyesight. ✌🏼
There’s an exercise 0, which is to play the roots only. There’s a lot of folks who will benefit first from finding the roots in different spots in the neck.
Yeah, he added that to another walking bass class
Plus maybe using 7b5 instead of that stupid symbols nobody is using anymore?
@@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517 we were taught to use ( -7b5 ) for those chords
@@sixmillionsilencedaccounts3517 the half diminished symbol is definitely still used
@Punch Down King diminished triad, m7b5 chord and diminished 7th chord are all different things. Helpful to be able to make the distinction
Great stuff. The number of people I’ve run into who want to play 4 notes a bar fast walking bass lines who haven’t come close to mastering a good 2 feel is shocking. You can basically do nothing but 2 feel the whole gig and people who aren’t major music nerds (I.e. virtually every person) are gonna be saying “that bass player was really good.”
And you can please the nerds by switching it up occasionally.
This is, by far, the single most useful bass lesson on the interwebs.
AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! You just clarified the mystery that's boggled my brain for years. A long time ago I was speaking to a school teacher that played jazz piano and she asked me if I could play jazz (because of my name) and I said I don't understand walking bass. I told her, all I know is R+5 and she said, "That's enough".
Wow I actually understood all of this, this clicked! Now to go back for the last couple years of videos and rewatch
This walking gets me walking over to my bass & dusting it off. Thanks Scott 👍
I want to play bass so much right now. That resolve at 10:10 is... perfect. It felt like that feeling right after the shivers. Or when you’re cold and step into the hot sun.
Scott was FIRE when this was recorded. “The amount of times students play the perfect fifth” and “you either can or can’t do it!” NICE!!! You tell ‘em, Scott!!!!
1:56 play each note on different spots in the neck every 8 bars (each chord cycle). warm up with exercise 0 first playing the roots on different spots in the neck
I had a jazz teacher tell me in college "you gotta play more then the root and 5!" but then as soon as I did he said it was too busy so then I went back to what I originally did and he was happy, I've had art teachers tell me I need to add more detail to a drawing so I'll go and sit down and pretend to work bring it back and get told perfect.
If your ok with the easy way out, that's your choice
@@brandonmalone1893 since when was sticking to your guns the easy way out
@@sicilianmammalian most likely they were happy because they thought this dude just doesn't care enough to push himself to improve. You said it yourself, you went back pretended to work and were told perfect. Some times people will say that because they don't wanna waste any time on someone not willing to try
Mr. Scott! Thanks for Your lessons! I study them more then year and Im happy! Now i live in a small russian city and your SBL community helps me to feel better!
Walking Bass lines is THE foundation. Love it 👊🏿
First time I've ever understood anything about walking bass lines. Good stuff.
Literally watching this with a VIOLIN in my hands to help me comp better, I like "walking" comping rather than playing chords or comps!
I swear every 5th ad I see on UA-cam is Scott. You must be crushing it.
This is making jazz very not intimidating, which is much appreciated. Here’s to a speedy recovery.
Autumn Leaves 🍂
... and I love that spontaneous cell phone jam!!!
Best youtube video ever.. seriously..
But i'm missing a backing track of this lovely chord progression.
That would help a lot aswell hahah
Search for an autumn leaves backing track
Curly russell would have been a good shout with his work with parker is very insightful
10:10 that G resolves so perfectly in the second bar.
the first few seconds had me hooked that was rad
Love that intro making music with the ringtone! Great lesson thanks!
Such a fun technique and a great lesson. Getting my first bass in a few days and this is where I'm going to be spending most of my time.
The chord sequence reminds me very much of 'Autumn Leaves'.
It is Autumn Leaves. 2-5-1-4 and then 2-5-1 on the 6th.
scott you are the man, i always learn new things everytime i watch your videos
Thank you, your teaching style is really effective for players learning jazz basics ❤
Thanks Scott!
Hey Scott, you're the best teacher on UA-cam. Each time you make me want to start again studying!
Excellent...so simply explained! Thanks!!
Great Video I play by ear reading notes not my thing..I was trying but I rather watch...good luck everyone
This is excellent
I applied it to Clapton’s Autume Leaves and it sounds great
Dude I LOVE this exercise! I’m going to give it a whirl myself!
This is such a fun technique! Thank you for sharing!
TTHANK YOU SCOTT. This is excellent! I see some questions about the Key. The Am7b5 is the giveaway; A would be the 7th scale degree, so the keynote is Bb. Then it follows the D7 should be Dm7 which is what I think you played, best seen in exercise 2.
Superb exercise
Excellent instruction! Thanks!
Good lesson. Thank you.
Excellent stuff, Scott! 😎
I loved the intro 😂😂
thank you scott. what a great lesson
Great video … once I finish the fretboard accelerator course i will look to enroll next year … the fretboard accelerator is a great course that is really teaching me the fretboard as well as the triads … “ visualize and verbalize “ 🙂 and hope u don’t wind up in bass jail 🥴 hahaha. SBL rocks.
Good stuff! Thanks Scott!
Thanks Scott, always enjoy yours & the team's stuff. At one point when you were saying root 'n 5
& root 'n 5, part of me was thinking go on say it - say it ... root 'n tootin' !
l know, very sad.
Super cool lesson...thanks
Man! This Is Brilliant!
best explanation ever
Great leason ty Scott
Great and useful stuff.
Amazing as always!
Very cool lesson.
Great video of this simple but musical concept! I'm a big fan of the 2 feel! Its really nice on it's own, but I also love Mixing it up and throwing it in while walking or using it predominantly and then occasionally throwing in some walking. But most import for me is that it's saved my ass on so many gigs when someone called out a tune that I wasn't familiar with and the changes were coming at me quickly.
Scott thank you for this video. I too have struggled with walking bass lines. I have kept a lot of pop gigs, but struggled keeping up with jazz combos. Gotta break out my real book.
Fun lesson! Seems to be some typos in the tab - roots and third page. (Still has you playing 5th). Sorry to be that guy. Just hope you can fix it for future people.
Another great lesson 💥💥💥
Thanks!
Really nicely done.. Looking forward to the JA class
Thanks 👍
Great video thanks
Thanks for this-actually motivated me to sign up for the course.
I understand nothing. But I'm here for it.
The most important thing is to play the root on one. The band can’t follow if you don’t play the root on one. From there you can play scales, arpeggios whatever.
Really good info. You're a great teacher and player.
👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
Really great video!!!
Very nice!
SBL Never fails to amaze me
I think Chris squires part in Heart of the Sunrise is a good example
I'm not a jazz guy but that's a really cool lesson.
As always a great lesson. I have been playing a lot of walking bass but I have never tried this method, thank you very much
Cool scott ❤
Oh my that is amazing it is my first time learning that 😅
That intro was to fire
THANK YOU!!
I LOVE this assignemnt!!
I am gonna beat the HELL out of this!!
Thanks man
Good lesson
Super!
I'm in. Let's go! What bass is that you're playing? It's 😍
Omg this is so complex. I'll come back to this video in two years I guess...
Sometimes teachers make it seem more complex than it really needs to be.
My life motto is “it’s all magic, till it ain’t.”
Don’t over think it, just dig the playing and before you know it, it won’t be magic anymore.🤘🏻
Ps,
Wanna have some fun with it, try Anthem, by Rush.
Granted, it’s more of a lightning fast prog example of the concept, but it’s an absolute blast!
(I’ve never liked Jazz, but it’s just me)
Very cool
Thanks.
👍👍👍
Great lesson, I loved it, thank you! 👊🏻🇧🇷❤
Does anyone here remember a Scott's lesson where he plays a sequence and shifts one pattern from the first bar to the second to the third then the fourth?
Useful for piano players too!
Thanx again
I am going to learn jazz bass. How do I learn to structure it from absolute scratch? I know some things. But I have bought bass books from chords to arpeggios, and a walking bass line book that comes hginhly recommmeded from a composer. Now I need the practice structure. I am asking you, Scott, what is the best way to begin like a true musician, to begin this misson? I am going to learn jazz music.
That shit you did at the beginning was Fookn AWESOME🔥 😎🤘
Please make a video of that Jam🙏
Scott, Vc é top👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
That backing track sounds very familiar. As if it comes from a Path of sorts 🤔🤔🤔
Great video!
Faulty Workbook!
The viedo is great but the notes are all the same for all four exercise pages in the workbook, so for Ex 2,3,4 you can't use it.
Do you have a seperate video I can download for the phone intro into the bassline?
I really loved it. And would like to download it even if it was made on the spot.
Great lesson. It helped a lot on understand the structure of a walking bass. The two notes feel is the trick. Thanks.
I keep asking myself "why is that five not a Dm7?"....and always end up reminding myself (after playing the D7) that the major third connecting to the one sounds so much nicer....even in a minor key.
Awesome Lesson and cool bass!
What kind of bass is that by the way?
Thanks
Joshua
That's an early 80s Ken Smith! ua-cam.com/video/mCSCnb-z19Q/v-deo.html&pp=ygUNU0JMIEtlbiBTbWl0aA%3D%3D
I've always wanted to understand walking bass and had no succes except at stupidly copying existing scores on record without progressing on different chords progressions or ability to be creative and play my own.
I've even taken courses with 3 different teachers back in the days when I was in my 20's.
Not a single one of them fucking told me about those exercices which make me feel like it is at least POSSIBLE to understand walking bass and actually invent one.
this is funny to me as a jazz bassist, i started filling in so the first thing i learned to do was walking so its natural to be, but tbf i was already a violinist who knew how to improvise
Hi Scott. Where did you get your tune key's muppets frog & bear?
Hey so where can I get that neat fret glove you are wearing I feel it would help my playing a bit
In exercise 2, you have G7, but Gm6 in the chord chart.
I have asked this a few times on these vids… what is on his hand? A special glove? Why? Do I need this? Someone please answer!!!!
When you say you challenge us to do it over the fretboard. Do we always and when do we use the flatted fifth like on the A in your example?
Great lesson Scott, but there's a little problem with the scrolling tab. Instead of Gm6 as on your whiteboard, it's showing G7... Thanks for your excellent tutorials! :-)
@Majority of 1 have a look at 8:45...
This is besides the point, but Gm6 is perfectly acceptable there. I’ve heard many people play the natural 6th instead of the flat 7
@Majority of 1 well isn't that interesting; I've been playing music for nearly 40 years and I've never seen a minor chord written in any way other than with an "m", min, or minor. So I've learnt something today. But I will say that it's a potentially confusing way to write it, and it doesn't use any less characters, so seems pointless. Also it's confusing for the same video to use both methods; consistency is king! Thanks for educating me, and for your concern about my eyesight. ✌🏼