The Essential Guide to Walking Bass

Learn Walking Bass With A Simple, Easy to Understand System - Perfect for Beginner To Intermediate Bassists

The Essential Guide to Walking Bass book is for bass players who want to learn to play walking bass in a simple and structured way (without pulling your hair out!) in just a few weeks.

The book is built around the 3M System, which distils walking bass down to three essential musical elements you’ll use again and again:

1. The Chord Tones & Interval Method to clearly outline harmony
2. The Chromatic Method to connect chords smoothly
3. The Scalic Method to extend ideas into natural, flowing walking lines

By concentrating on these core elements, the book avoids unnecessary detours and gets straight into how walking bass is actually used in real-world situation.

It enables you to:

 ✅ Create Bass lines that sound great in the ‘real world’ using Chromatics, Chord tones, Intervals & Scales.

 ✅ Construct your own walking bass using the formulas & templates that top professionals use every day

 ✅ Produce spontaneous, improvised sounding bass lines, using pre-planning techniques to create ‘in the moment’ Walking Bass

Walking Bass does not have to be hard or impossible to learn, and often agreed that it’s the most powerful method any Bass Guitar student can learn.

Here’s Why:

1. [Harmony] Walking Bass improves every single genre of music you play. You’ll know exactly exactly which notes will work, even over the most complicated chords.

2. [Fingerboard Knowledge ] Walking Bass improves fingerboard knowledge. Have confidence to start exploring the whole of the neck. Stop getting stuck in one or two positions of the bass.

3. [Rhythm] Walking Bass ensures you focus on creating and maintaining pulse so your rhythmic confidence develops in every musical situation.

Here’s what’s inside the book:

◉ A step-by-step system which starts simple at day one and slowly builds

◉ Clear teaching that makes each element of the 3M System for Walking Bass ‘easy to understand’ giving you total clarity on how Chromatics, Chord Tones, Intervals, triads, arpeggios and Scales & Modes work to create walking bass lines.

◉ Formulas, Templates & ‘Riff Packs’ so you experience and learn countless examples of these concepts in action.

◉ 101 audio examples and backing tracks that are all performed using 100% real musicians and instruments (nothing computer generated!) so you can hear exactly what your aiming for.

◉ Standard notation, tab and fingerboard diagrams so all examples are clear and understandable.

The Essential Guide To Walking Bass For Bass Guitar Players gives you detailed knowledge of how to create, play & improvise Walking Bass over the most important ‘Jazz’ and ‘Blues’ structures ...after all, Walking Bass is right at the heart of all of the great bass players from Ray Brown or Charles Mingus all the way through to Jaco Pastorius, Marcus Miller or Victor Wooten.