Walking Bass - Quick Start Guide (Udemy.com)
Learn to improvise effective walking bass guitar lines on your own using a simple strategy.
Created by: Bogdan Radovic
Last updated November 2019
What you will learn
- Gain necessary foundations for tackling walking bass style in-depth
- Learn to improvise simple & effective walking bass lines over any backing track
- Be more confident when jamming or composing bass lines
- Know how to identify root notes for any given chord
- Jam over backing tracks or play with a band in a walking bass style
- Become more familiar with bass fretboard
How it compares
Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 27% of them
- Reviews114#112 of 184 by number of reviews
- Length1.3 hoursshorter than 90% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2019earlier than 61% of them
Course Description
Always wanted to learn how to play walking bass, but it was too difficult?
This course is my personal “instant walking bass” recipe. You’ll learn the basic concepts and strategies that will allow you to improvise simple walking bass lines in just a few weeks of practicing. Yes - you will be IMPROVISING on your OWN! Believe it or not. The strategies I’ll be sharing are not that difficult to master and I’m sure you’ll have that eureka moment when you figure them out - just like I had when I was starting.
Please watch the free preview videos to get a taste for what’s inside.
This course is shot in full HD video, with quality bass playing audio mixed with the backing tracks. The course is split into five chapters, each adding a new element to our “instant-walking-bass” strategy. This means that each chapter is really doable - you just need a bit of practice.
This course includes:
- PDF, Guitar Pro 5 & Guitar Pro 6 tabs for each playing example
- Interactive backing track videos for jamming and practice
- Downloadable backing tracks in mp3 format
- Text transcripts for each lesson
- English subtitles
- Unlimited forum help and instructor feedback
I want you to know that I would love if you would post your questions as you progress through the course. Please feel free to send me messages anytime, I’ll be checking them out and responding quickly. Also, I’d like to encourage you to record audio files or videos (you can post videos on Youtube and share the link) and send them to me for feedback.
I’m here to help YOU, so please don’t be shy :)
This course is meant as an introduction to walking bass. We won’t be going into any complicated theory and walking bass concepts. What you’ll gain are necessary foundations for expanding your knowledge and more importantly - means of cheating your way into walking bass territory. After all, not all of us end up being session musicians or super stars in certain genres. All musicians (even pros), often prefer to take the easy route and learn how to “fake” certain styles. This is what you’ll learn, you’ll learn how to “fake” walking bass type of lines until you are ready for more. I must say, that this can be a lot of fun and a lot of my friends (myself included), never actually feel the need later on to learn specific styles in more depth.
This course, does not rely on any music theory (at least complicated one). This is a problem of many other walking bass courses as those just dig too deep into music theory that it becomes boring. You’ll just need to have a very basic understanding of how to find certain notes on the fretboard (in basic, most often used positions on the neck). Since walking bass heavly relies on chords, you’ll need to have a basic understanding of chords and root notes, but we cover those topics within the course.
Please send me your feedback about the course. What did you like? What did you not like? How could I improve it? Your feedback means a lot to me and I need to in order to better shape the course content for YOU.
Please Enroll Today!
Cheers,
Bogdan
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
114 Reviews
Bogdan Radovic
Bogdan has been teaching bass guitar online for more than 8+ years now and has worked with 1000+ of online students over the years. His preferred teaching style are personalized video courses on focused topics that effortlessly guide students from point A to B giving them instant gratification at the end of each lesson.
Bogdan is also a published artist, songwriter, and producer with more 300+ live shows with various bands behind him. This experience from live gigs is what has defined him as a musician. His favorite bass guitar is a Fender American Jazz Bass deluxe and his favorite bass players are Paul McCartney, Victor Wooten and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Bogdan has almost a million views on Youtube and more than 1000 subscribers.
He has a strong passion for teaching others in a down-to-earth kind of way as he enjoys sharing tips and tricks as well as shortcuts and other revelations he has come to over the years of studying the instrument. His motto is “everyone needs to have fun while practicing” and his lessons always include musical examples and backing tracks students can have fun with.
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Reviews
By Grant Jackson on 10/13/2022
This is a very brief course, but you will be playing along with your favorite songs the same day! I can hardly believe how easy this was.
By Gary “G-ROB” Robinson on 7/9/2020
I love the long practice loop. And you explain everything very well especially for a beginner like me!
By Duane Hughes on 11/23/2019
This course completely delivers on what it promises - a quick start. You will never master walking bass with an hour long course, it just gets you started. Well done Bogdan.
By Luca Izzo on 1/2/2019
I enjoyed the course. Probably the content is not enough given the price, but with more examples (e.g. backing tracks related to different genres) it will be perfect.
By Paul Janssenswillen on 8/22/2018
Great course, easy to understand with small steps and a sense of achievement realised once completed. Good to revisit every so often and to try the lessons learned on other chord progressions and musical styles. 1st class - change nothing. Thanks Bogdan.
By Henrique on 12/26/2017
No practice when explain this first leasons. tHE COURSE IS TO BASIC AND I PAID FOR MORE THAN THIS. I REALLY WANNA MY MONEY BACK.
By Judith Armstrong on 11/21/2017
I loved this course. It is explained so very well. Clear and easy to follow. I was in a group of uku players, and was handed the bass to play . No previous experience. So I just had to play the root notes most of the time and sing. This is like having a teacher in the room with you. I understand the Bass so much more now and with practice I’m sure I will get back to enjoying it. I just love the deep sound it produces. Thank You Bogdan.
By Barry Toothaker on 1/7/2016
Loved how you could use this material quickly and play along on the bass with a backing track. I can't wait to try and apply it to some other songs
By Viktor T on 12/28/2015
I liked the way this course was put together. It was easy for me to follow and complete lectures (I've been playing bass for a year now). Backing tracks and tabs are really helpful. I'm still practicing to get up to speed with the improvisation part. Thanks!
By Stephen Gaudet on 12/24/2015
I discovered some of Bogdan's bass guitar lessons a few years ago when he was working with Guitarmasterclass.net. Now Im happy to see that he's dedicated a separate site to learning to play bass. Bogdan's approach to teaching is very layed back, but practical, and his video explanations are always easy to follow. He covers all the essentials and makes learning the basics fun and not boring. Ive learned a lot from his lessons over the years. Thank you Bodgan !
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