Dave Marks Walking Bass Lesson 06

This week we are looking at all of the mathematical possibilities with a II V I progresion using Root position, 1st, 2nd and 3rd inversions. It's like maths.. but hold tight, work through it and we'll be back to the more musical stuff next week! You can get a pdf to accompany this lesson - just click on http://www.davemarks.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&s...

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• bassline
• walking
• jazz
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• Dave
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[ReggattaDeBlanc]

...I do not criticize your playing skills, but please teach them bass patterns, especially chromatic patterns so that "students" can have fun quickly over a F blues, at lesson number 1.

So please give young bassist tools to have funny walking bass.. or rename your videos "Bass chords" which is in any case better than boring scales and mode, as Carol Kaye says...

[davemarks]

I'm teaching a system here - not a lick. If I show you a lick, you will play that same lick every time. If you work on this system, it will develop your hand technique, your ear and get you ready to start improvising. I meet so many bassists who learn licks but have no idea what notes they are playing or which chords they fit over. Some people teach fun lessons, I'm teaching the real deal - it takes time, but it's a very solid approach.

[rumblebud]

Dave, this is terrific material! Your approach is extremely logical and it is helping me identify some holes in my own approach to walking lines! I've been guilty of falling into "habit" lines and the opportunity to work through some well thought out rudiments to break those habits is just what I need. Thanks sooo much!

[StuffVS]

you lied in you previus video about seeing us in a week

[StuffVS]

where do you live?

[lkungfu]

Great job, love the songbird in the background.  Are you in Scotland?

[ATTdiggler]

Dave,

Would you mind including a lesson where you show how each of the inversions can be used in a song. Basically, how to determine which inversion or root position to use with what chords. 

Great videos!

Thanks,

ATTDiggler

[scyron101]

I agree. I can play alot of songs like metallica or victor wooten but I've never been very good at the basics. If you can get that down then the flashy stuff is easy. I guess what I'm trying to say is thanks. These lessons are really helping me out alot with my tech. I really app. and keep up the good work.

[dillikins]

This approach is very useful, even for some who have played bass for twenty-odd years! Some viewers seem to think Dave should be posting quick-fix tricks for getting through a tune. That is obviously (or so I would have thought) not what Dave is trying to present. A lot of us can already get through a chart by employing some basic approaches. These lessons, on the other hand, are providing information that will help build a solid foundation for further learning. Excellent work, Dave.

[lestalkmorebasss]

I second this, exactly. Thanks Dave!

[ReggattaDeBlanc]

Yes but inversions is not a priority for walking I think. Better playing 1235 for all chords, sometimes playing the 7th for minor or 7th and 6th for major (never the Maj7th for major this is a major rule you should teach at first!)

Ed Friedland method is not the best, i own the 2 books and it is a bit boring.

Go for Carol Kaye tutorials instead...

[MosGuy]

DeBlanc: Dave's teaching the proper way to do it. IMO they are the video equivalent to Ed Friedland's walking bass books. Many times all you'll have is a chord chart (no notes). You have to make up a bass line on the fly. These videos & Ed's excellent books teach you how to do that. There are lots of websites out there if you just want to play walking lines without learning how to make them yourself.