The 5 Golden Rules of Bass

#5 Walking Bass

More walking bass

||Am7 / / / |D7 / / / ||

linking the roots via scale notes

use chromatic notes to delay the onset of the next root

actually this chart shows a walking bass without a chromatic link

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Your Task:

consider this:

When the chords are too close or too distant we follow the root, on beat one, with a chord note, and proceed to walk up or down the scale from that position.

More solutions for other chord progressions in G Major, below.

||:Am7 / / / |C / / / :||

....A E D C# |C E F# G

||:Am7 / / / |Bm7 / / / : ||

......A E D C |B F# G G#

||: Am7 / / / |G / / / : ||

.....A E F F# |G D C B

||: Am7 / / / |Em7 / / / : ||

.....A G F# F |E F# G G#

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