Walking bass lines are the most common approach to playing jazz. As the name implies,

walking means that a moving feeling should be created with the bass part. Just like walking with

our feet, walking bass lines are intended to take us somewhere. Movement is the central

concept with walking bass lines.

Walking bass lines are not only played in jazz and also, concepts of walking bass lines can be

used in genres like rock, blues, r&b, gospel, Latin, country, and many other types of music.

What you need to take away from that is, you don’t have to be a jazz player in order to learn

how to play walking bass lines. The process involved in creating bass lines is applicable to any

style of music.

When you encounter a set of chords, deciding which notes to play and determining the order to

play them is always a challenge for us bass players, since we need to outline chords and the

direction of the progression. Learning how to play walking bass lines helps us to make those

decisions more consciously, in that sense.

After this course, you will be able to compose and improvise walking bass lines and use those

concepts to come up with your own bass lines in other genres.