Walking Bass

[zebramandude]

hardcore epicness

[joex10design]

Love yur work ,

Try my my first shot at a blues jam on an acoustic :

watch?v=Vo3QyghmCSg

[BassMachine1324]

you look just like Jeremy McKinnon from A Day to Remember

[Justin18Owen]

Tobias brother! I have a killer b 5, n that one u have sounds very unique

[guxtube753]

I Dont Care About The Bass Were's The Oxiclean?????????' xD Ahaha Just Kidding Yeah!

[Direksone]

so is there really much theory behind walking bass? Cause I can just f around with a walking bassline and it still sounds pretty good.

[scottwalker321]

19 seconds of being one smoooth m*th3r fk3r! :D awesumness

[azaruki]

Very good your video.

This is my video.

watch?v=67qfvXNK2vA

I'll post better videos soon.

[elvdduque]

HI , BILLY MAYS HERE! , ARE YOU TIRED OF SUCKING AT BASS PLAYING , NOW WE GOT THE SOLUTION , WATCH THE WHOLE VIDEO

hahaha

Just Kidding

Nice Played

[EvenHummROCKS]

Try playing the waking bassline to the song all of me, its pretty fun

[bertito7777]

Terrible MTD.

[davemuscato]

For $425 on eBay, I'm not complaining! It's very easy to play, light-weight, and punchy as hell for playing live at a fraction of the cost of the American ones. What kind of MTD do you have? I'd love a 635 but that's not happening anytime soon ;)

[gustavoturm]

@davemuscato He said this bass sounds bad? What is a good sounding bass?

[Mauistyl]

@davemuscato I agree that the budget MTDs sound nice and its a great bass for the price.

[RageicaNiels]

bluesy line

[slippingontheslide]

i would say it was a boogie blues line as opposed to walking jazz line.

[TAYGUNOV]

i've been trying to get walking basslines forever but still cant -.-. I understand how to play basic blues arpegios over a standard 12 bar blues pattern as a walking bassline, but how do i make more complicated ones? How do i pick other notes and play them differently then just the same arpegio in order over a 12 bar blues?/?

[DATAFRAMEC]

chilled

[Nirvalica]

Billy Mays is alive!

[Incubus635]

got me to laugh out loud man good one lol

[Matle666]

Haha, exactly what I was thinking!

[sasuke7naruto7]

Did you run the fingers on your plucking hand over the strings when playing the eighth notes and not pluck them? Peculiar...~

[gardenofweeden]

You mean the raking?

[bassist1O1]

Wooo!

Rock on fellow five stringer!

[oober349]

Do you know where I could find information regarding how walking basslines are constructed/their formula?

[davemuscato]

There are basically 3 ways to play a walking line: Play up & down straight from the scale (scalar), play chromatic approaches, and play arpeggios of the chord you're outlining. You can mix & match, too. Pretty much, as long as you play a chord tone on the 1 and 3 beats, you can play whatever you want on the 2 and 4 and it'll sound okay. It really just takes practice and a bit of knowledge of chord theory. Berklee prof Bruce Gertz has a great book/DVD called "Walkin'" that I recommend, too.

[oober349]

very cool, man

I'm a sax player and have been told that learning to walk would greatly increase my understanding of the blues.

[ghostguy2k7]

wow sounds rly good =P

[DrummerFL83]

i like your tone, nice crisp clean sound. thumbs up!

[primusfeces]

love the walking lines....dont like your tone but hey nice job

[davemuscato]

Thanks; yeah, that's just a Fender Rumble 25-watt 1x10 practice amp, and my camera was actually sitting on top of it while recording using the built-in microphone, LOL. I sound a lot better through my usual rig!

[Kyylari2]

Fine work :)

[davemuscato]

Thank you :)

[Ozbassman]

your bruno popeye the sailor mans enemy am i right:-] LOL

[davemuscato]

Brutus? Nah, that guy was big & strong... I'm only 5'5" :)

[lowfreq65]

are John Pattitucci??

[sickdiggitydog]

Good playing. :)

Just don't become a Wikifag.

[davemuscato]

What's a Wikifag?

[sickdiggitydog]

Basically someone who sits on Wikipedia ALL day and each time they make a revert or save a page for vandalism, they think they are god or something. It's my own term, but hey.

[scrumtoe]

what a stupid comment

[DaniteFlyer41]

so you've taken the time to look for people that do that to call them a wikifag? this dude is just trying to help out new bassist...gtfo sick

[sickdiggitydog]

Wow cry more.

[AVLVGN]

Can you give me this song tab ?

[tombirkland]

Extremely cool. I can't read the bass staff very well, so this helped a lot! Now I really want to learn bass! The sound was great, even if just off the camera mic. Thanks for taking the time to make and post this--I know those of us who read the article on Wikipedia really appreciate it.

[davemuscato]

That's exactly why I made it - I figured not everybody reading that article could read sheet music... I'm really glad to hear that it helped you!

[kylesaggett]

wow man, i saw the entry on walking bass on wiki and i was like "i dont read music, idk wtf that means" so i youtubed it and you are my savior. You win.

[davemuscato]

Glad to help; that's why I made the video :)

[ajawam]

Nice...

[JuanmaBass]

Ey! Is it a MTD Kingston 5 ? I have one too, with a seymour duncan pickup and preamp. Really cool walking!

[davemuscato]

That's an MTD Kingston, the Artist 5, to be specific, yup. This one just has the stock MM-style 'bucker and preamp. At some point I might put a Nordstrand pickup in there and upgrade the preamp, too, although I think it sounds just fine as-is.... (cont'd)

[davemuscato]

(cont'd) This recording is just to show what a walking bassline is, so I didn't even bother to run the audio into the camera; it's just recording the room (bass is going into a Fender Rumble 25).

Thanks :) I will have to re-do this sometime with better audio and without the flubbing, haha. Regards,

Dave