You will immediately notice that this tune does not follow the standard 12 bar blues form that we have covered earlier in this course.
In this lesson we will shift the focus onto our left hand and explore some useful left hand patterns, mainly focusing on the shuffle feel.
Learn a walking bass line practice drill for beginner blues piano players. This walking bass line is perfect to use on the 12 bar blues.
Walking bass is the most common type of bass that you will hear in jazz and jazz blues on the organ. In this lesson we explore the theory.
The left-hand is the bass player and drummer in a band, both rolled into one. It keeps the beat, it plays the bass line, and it establishes the groove.
This course covers walking bass, blues and gospel inspired jazz standards. We introduce the major blues scale to add soulful licks to your arrangements.
In this lesson we will explore a simple way to approach the tune “Autumn Leaves” with a walking bass outlining just the root and 5th of the chord.
In this lesson we will apply the theory from the walking bass lessons and also introduce rhythmic comping and other stylistic elements of walking bass.
We’re now going to take the study a step further by adding scales into the walking bass lines and enhance the rhythm and swing feel of our lines.
We discuss some important principles for creating a simple walking bass line and then apply the principles in the context of 251 progressions.
A nice place to start out with walking bass lines is to create lines using just the root and 5th with either chromatic or whole step approach tones.
You can use the specific bassline demonstrated for playing solo piano, learning different blues heads, and for practising improvised solos.
