Walking Bass for Piano, Ed Mascari Piano Studio

If you're like most piano students, you spend much of your time playing solo piano. How can you get your keyboard style to swing?

One way to jazz up your solo work is to use walking bass lines. When you play a walking bass line on the piano, the idea is to treat your left hand as if it were playing string bass parts. For examples of great bass players playing walking bass lines with equally great pianists check out Ray Brown with Oscar Peterson or Eddie Gomez with Bill Evans.

This is a short tutorial that will show you a simple, but effective example of a walking bass line for solo piano. We use a popular jazz standard to illustrate the use of a solo piano walking bass line and show you notes and hand positions to get you started.

For more information and to download the sheet music to our Walking Bass example, visit our Walking Bass Music Theory page at: http://www.edmascari.com/walkingbass/

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[artt8706]

Chloe, don't know if you ever got the notes . . . . the basic progression is C, G, D, F. The slides he's talking about go - C, G#, G, D#, D, F#, F, C#, C. Each note gets a full count and the sharp notes slide to it's natural. Hope that helps.

[Chloe Sheppard]

What are the notes? like G,D,F# ???? But its amazing!!!!

[Ed Mascari]

Thank you John,

My goal is to do more video lessons such as this one.

All the best wishes for your own piano playing,

Ed

[John Montgomery Rouse]

Great and simple to follow - post more please!!!

[Ed Mascari]

Karen,

Glad you enjoyed this.

Check out the new one: "Beguine Bass"

Thanks again,

Ed

[Karen Fahey]

Love this video!  Ed, thank you for filming and sharing. Please post more.

[Ventriloquist24x7]

Ed,

Very nice instructional video! Thank you!

Catch us at Foxwoods Resort & Casino next month.