Walking Bass Lines with Chord Changes

Video Transcript

"Okay, so we just looked at how we can play over chord changes. Basically we can walk our way to them using passing tones, chromatics, scales, basically everything in our arsenal so far. Well, that's walking quarter notes. To make our lives a little more interesting we can use some rhythmic differences. There is two ways of changing the rhythm sometimes outside of the quarter notes that really have a good sound. There's playing a dotted eighth note to a sixteenth note, usually at the end of a measure. Let's see. Right there. It goes B flat, F, G, D flat...So those are dotted eighth notes and sixteenth notes linked. Okay, there's also triplets. Usually those going down the strings. That's a triplet like... that's an eighth note. Triplet, okay, triplet. Dotted eighth note. Here it is written. So if you play this line right here, B flat, C minor, this walking bass line. It's on E flat, F, G, D, D flat, C... G, F, and then A. And now you do a triplet. B flat, F, and D. You can roll your fingers off. You can do that all with one finger on your right hand. Now B natural as a chromatic, C, C, F, A, so that would sound... So practice using dotted eighth notes and triplets to make your walking lines a little more interesting."