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The Essential Guide to Walking Bass

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

The ‘3M System for Walking Bass’ starts right at the beginning (assuming nothing), and teaches you the 3 core methods to master Walking Bass with ease, especially for bass guitar players.

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:

[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.
[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.
[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, assuming nothing.
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.

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Bought wrong book

I actually thought I was buying Music Theory that has the exact same picture and layout on the cover. Disappointed I didn’t find this soon enough.

Great Intro to Walking Bass Lines and Practical Applications

If you're serious about becoming a competent bassist, buy this book! Seriously! Remember the first time a bass line caught your ear and you thought, "wow! That's cool!"? Undoubtedly that was a walking bass line. Quite simply, a walking bass line is how you go from 1 key to the next. Simple? Hmm not necessarily... But James Eager makes it simple. More importantly, he makes it clear on how do put these most important bass lines together. Chromatics, harmonics, it's all in there. Well written, in a clear and logical manner, James makes it relatively simple to understand the core concepts that you will need to create bass lines that work in a variety of musical genres. Even intermediate players can benefit from this handy reference guide. If your serious about being a bassist, or even just want to be able to participate in jam sessions, you need to buy this book!

James takes a previously overwhelming subject and simplifies it for the average Bass Player.

Prior to purchasing this video program, I was stuck playing basic Bass lines to my favorite songs, especially ones involving the Blues or Jazz tunes. Within a few short weeks of working with this program, James was able to ease my mind and expand my knowledge of walking bass lines. I found that what I had originally thought to be overwhelming, was actually a very easy to understand concept. I have been following Jame's instruction for several years now but I can say that he really advanced my playing ability with The Essential Guide To Walking Bass For Bass Guitar Players.

this is the essential walking bass guide a must have

this is a must have quality taught bass lesson book,a must to build your walking bass knowledge. from beginners to intermediate players will benefit highly from these lessons. easy to understand by bass extraordinaire and teacher James Eager . dont delay add this lesson book to your arsenal,and you'll be prepared for those jam sessions with your friends.

Learn Walking Basslines

The book starts out very basic so that all bass players can learn. It then grows in information and examples to help you become a walking bassline monster. The great thing is that James has provided backing tracks for you to get a more in depth knowledge to the lessons. A great book, and I would recommend it to all bassplayers and even guitar players who want to know what is happening when the bass player plays off the root notes.

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The Essential Guide to Walking Bass