Download or read book The Essential Guide to Walking Bass for Bass Guitar Players written by James Eager and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn To Play Walking Bass Lines 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. About The Author James Eager has almost two decades of gig performances in the UK as a full time bass player. He has taught hundreds of students in person, and now thousands of students online through his membership site and books. He believes that learning Walking Bass should be a straightforward and obtainable technique for all students. Which led him to the development of 'The 3M System For Walking Bass' and he has been on a mission for the past 15 years to teach this incredible style of bass playing to his students. He has also authored, 'The Complete Guide to Music Theory for Bass Guitar Players' and 'The Essential Guide to Technique for Bass Guitar Players'.