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Unit 3: Low end · Lesson 6 of 10

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A note on every beat, walking up through the chord: jazz and rock ’n’ roll. About 3 minutes, in your browser.

All 10 parts of Unit 3, 6 cards and a project: add a bass line to your beat and make it heavier without adding drums.
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Unit 3 · Lesson 6 · New pattern

Walking bass

A note on every beat, walking up through the chord: jazz and rock ’n’ roll.

Which one walks?
Done

Two basses over the same chords and drums. One walks. Play both, then choose.

Play each, then choose.
1. Which bass walks?
Fix the walk
Done

This line should climb one row a beat: root, third, fifth, sixth. Two notes have swapped places, so it lurches. Put them back so it walks straight up.

4 boxes to fix.
128bpm
4 bars

Sixthalready there
Fifthyour turn
Thirdyour turn
Rootalready there
Rimalready there
Chordsalready there
1. Bar 1Am7
2. Bar 2Fmaj7
3. Bar 3Cmaj7
4. Bar 4G7
Heard in
Done

Walking bass carries jazz and early rock ’n’ roll. Three tracks, as our recreations of their rhythm sections.

0 of 3 heard.
- Rock Around the ClockBill Haley & His Comets · 1954
- So WhatMiles Davis · 1959
- Fly Me to the MoonFrank Sinatra · 1964
Our own recreations of each beat, not the recordings.
Lesson done

3 steps, all done, and saved to your account.

bass Walking bass
A note on every beat, walking up the chord

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808 slide is next. Hold a long 808 and glide it up to the next note: the bend under trap and drill.

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