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Guitar Lab: 100 Walking Blues Bass Line Formulas, Vol. 1
Master Walking Blues: Quarter-Note Groove, Guide-Tone Craft, and Ear Training
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About this course
Guitar Lab: 100 Walking Blues Bassline Formulas is designed to equip you with a practical vocabulary of quarter-note walking lines for dominant-blues contexts. You will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
What you'll learn
- Apply chord voicings over bass line patterns
- Apply the staircase analogy to understand melodic movement
- Apply rhythmic variations to melodic patterns
- Understand the 1-5-8-b7 chord tone pattern
- Convert bass line patterns into melodic ideas
Release date: 10/01/2025 • 1h 35m runtime
Sample lessons
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Lesson & Demonstration
What's included
22 lessons • 1 charts
100 Walking Blues Bass Line Formulas
I’m Brad Carlton. I play guitar, I play bass, I write and arrange for horns, and I do all kinds of things. I sing, I’m a musician, and I’ve been playing guitar for a very long time. I’ve taught forever, and today I’m going to show you bass lines.
I’ve done a couple of courses on bass, but what I want to show you here is how to understand a walking bass line. That means quarter notes—it’s jazz-oriented. We’ll be playing bluesy ideas, but I’ll also show you how to expand it into different styles. You’ll learn how to self-comp and use your ear training with this.
So grab your guitar and let’s play some walking blues bass lines.
I’ve done a couple of courses on bass, but what I want to show you here is how to understand a walking bass line. That means quarter notes—it’s jazz-oriented. We’ll be playing bluesy ideas, but I’ll also show you how to expand it into different styles. You’ll learn how to self-comp and use your ear training with this.
So grab your guitar and let’s play some walking blues bass lines.
1 2 b3 3
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
1 2 3 5
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
1 3 5 6
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
1 3 5 3
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
1 3 5 8
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
1 3 8 5
In this course you will be presented with concise one-bar patterns, multiple fretboard layouts, and simple shell-voicing comping you can drop between beats—along with technical tips for tone, touch, muting, posture, and right-hand independence. You’ll also get clear, no-jargon harmony and ear-training to recognize classic blue-note color and guide-tone movement. But most importantly, you will learn how to turn each pattern into real music by practicing creative variations—shaping grooves, riffs, and transposable phrases across swing, shuffle, Texas swing, funk, reggae, and Latin feels.
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