Scalar Approach

by Bogdan Radovic

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- bassplayer5424th October 2011
  This is awesome Bogdan! Thanks so much for taking the time to create yet another wonderful lesson. Walking bass is my favorite style of playing and you're one of the best at it. Your explanation of how to match chord types with scale mode notes is so useful. Im going to study this thoroughly. Thank you very much! Oh...and I love your J bass. I just wish I could mine as well as you play yours..lol ( someday maybe)
- Kristofer Dahl24th October 2011
  Your lessons are amazingly instructional Bogdan - hats off to you!
- Bogdan Radovic24th October 2011
  Thanks a lot guys!
  I'm really glad you like the lesson. This approach of matching scales with chords translates to everything, not just walking bass.
- Sinisa Cekic24th October 2011
  Great walking Bogdan
- Adrian Figallo24th October 2011
  this is a great lesson mate, thumbs up, i would use a bit more of compression on the bass tho, some notes just pop out more than other, that should fix it!
- Bogdan Radovic25th October 2011
  Thanks a lot guys
  One neat trick to make walking bass lines more fun is to play with dynamics. For example, accenting beats 2 and 4 in a bar will help propel the tune forward as those beats are considered as strong beats regarding rhythm as opposed to beats 1 and 3 which are strong regarding harmony - in tradition of the 4 feel walking. Of course you can always mix it up a bit too
- Adrian Figallo25th October 2011
  ahh got it man, you were trying to demo dynamics, that great!
- JPBluestring25th October 2011
  Great stuff Bogdan! Now I got to practice my memory.
- Bogdan Radovic27th October 2011
  QUOTE (JPBluestring @ Oct 26 2011, 12:51 AM)
  Great stuff Bogdan! Now I got to practice my memory.
  
  Thanks man!
  Actually this lesson will help you understand concepts behind improvisation so you won't need to memorize anything rather play along with the backing by just looking at the chords playing in the backing (you usually have that written down on staff or piece of paper).
  
  Let me know if you need any help.

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