ChrisF Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Hi all, due to health problems I havent played my bass for many, many months and I have only played it sporadically over the last year. Anyway, Im back to it now. And I saw a clip on the web of someone doing what he called a "walk up". It sounded great so I thought I would try it, but it doesnt sound the same. He said that he was playing E & F# (on the D string) then A# & A (on the G string) When I tried it, it just didnt sound right..... did I miss hear the second two notes...... as they are the ones that didnt sound quite right..or what ?? Sorry for what is probably a very basic question, but due to my health, my playing and my progress have been rather slower than I had hoped. cheers ... Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbie Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 A bit of an awkward choice, which can also sound interesting in the right context. Musically speaking nothing is absolutely wrong. But you need to know what is the target note you are walking to, what key/mode you are in (at the very least if major or minor), what chord you are moving around to highlight. the ability to make these choices at tempo is what makes bass players more intelligent than almost anyone else on the planet (he he). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbie Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 PS- great to hear you are better and back to playing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisF Posted March 20, 2015 Author Share Posted March 20, 2015 Blimey........ now Im really confused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbie Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Sorry Chris, didn't mean to make it confusing. More simply you may have got one note wrong, more likely to be something like E, F#, G#, A walking up to B, which would be the V chord before resolving back to E. All other possible explanations are a bit more jazzy. Now I have probably made it too basic and I may have missed your point, if so I am very sorry again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah thomas Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Chris, glad you're better. If you put a link to the clip maybe that would help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Diaz Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 If it's a walk up from E to A, chances are that he played E - F# - G# - A. That'd be going from I to IV using the diatonic major scale in EM(4 #s). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisF Posted March 21, 2015 Author Share Posted March 21, 2015 Yes.. that's it E F# G# A ....which is about the only combination that I didn't try the other day. Thanks to all of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisF Posted March 21, 2015 Author Share Posted March 21, 2015 Rabbie...... you didnt make it confusing, I did. Im self taught so I dont get a lot of the "proper" musical references Sarah ..... thanks, I think Im definitely on the mend..hopefully. As for the clip..... lol.I cant find it again,but if I do I will post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artisan Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Hi Chris,nice to see you back on here mate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisF Posted March 21, 2015 Author Share Posted March 21, 2015 Cheers dude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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