Walking Bassics

Walking Bassics: The Fundamentals of Jazz Bass Playing by Ed Fuqua is one of the few method books that focuses exclusively on how to create authentic-sounding walking bass lines. Designed for beginning players or anyone wanting a solid foundation for learning jazz bass, it contains detailed discussions of the four crucial principles of walking bass line construction, tips on creating good time feel and how to make good note choices, plus a dozen additional walking bass techniques, once the basics have been mastered. The play-along online audio has Ed Fuqua and his swinging New York rhythm section playing simple blues and standard tunes. Transcriptions are included of every note Ed plays on the online audio, for the student to analyze, play-along with, and use to build a vocabulary of walking bass lines.