How to Play a Walking Bass Line

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Now we're going to talk about walking bass using arpeggios in something else called passing tones. Passing tones are notes that are outside of the scale or the arpeggio. But they help us arrive at the next chord. For example if we're going from our C seven in this bar to the F seven here instead of doing something like, in order to fill the gap to make it a little more smoother we're going to play a passing tone. Either from above the F or below the F to go right into it. So we can do something like. Or we can do. And all I'm doing is I'm going a half stop from above or below into the target note which is the F in order to give our baseline a more fluid movement. So to show an example now I'm going to use passing tones and arpeggios over the basic twelve bar blues for a walking baseline. And that's how you would combine using both arpeggios and passing tones for walking bass over the basic twelve bar blues.

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