Tag: walking

Bass day (1h 30m)

  • Chords
    • All 7th chords in closed and open voicings
    • Autumn Leaves in A- & G- with mixed voicings
    • Triads (harmonising C & F major scales)
      • Root
      • 1st inversion
      • 2nd inversion
  • Chords tones / walking bass
    • 7th chords permutations (harmonising F major scale)
      • All starting on 1
      • All starting on 3
    • Improv using permutations over Autumn Leaves

Bass day (1h 30m)

  • Warm-up: walking bass line to a jazz standard with chromatic passing tones, reading in Nashville notation
  • Chord tones (Phil Mann)
    • Major 7th chord arpeggios in all inversions consequently, chromatically up the neck, in two fingerings
    • Same with minor 7th and dominant 7th chord arpeggios (also in 2 fingerings)
    • Applying inversions: 2nd & 3rd in ascending & descending motion to a jazz standard (+ passing tones)

Bass day (1h 30m)

  • Walking bass
    • Practice with Nashville number notation (several random keys over Mixolydian and Dorian progression)
      • Focus on chormatic transitions avoiding the root (e. g. to the 3rd or to the 5th of the following chord)
  • Chord tones (Phil Mann)
    • Major 7th chord arpeggios in all inversions consequently, chromatically up and down the neck
    • Practice 7th chord inversions over a standard in Nashville notation (focus on 2nd inversion, up and down + improv)

Bass day (1h 30m)

  • Walking bass practice with Nashville number notation (keys of C, F, Bb, Eb, Ab)
  • Tons of Runs (Andy Laverne book) — recap 1st dominant figure + new one, apply to several chords
  • Practice 7th chord inversions over blues progression in Nashville notation in several keys (root, 1st, 1st reversed)
  • Run all 1st inversions of all 7th chords in 2 fingerings around the cycle of 4ths (to a click)