Learn walking bass from one of the greatest living bass teachers
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I WANT TO TELL YOU A Story...
When I was a kid, I didn’t just want to play “good enough” bass in a band. I wanted to “geek out”. I would skip meals going through old bass books to learn what the best bassists in the world were doing. (This was pre-internet.) There was one series of bass books I read so much and so often, I wore them out.
Those books were Ed Friedland’s walking bass books.
I couldn’t believe how well he encapsulated walking bass into the pages of his books.
And I wasn’t alone: Ed’s books are among the highest selling walking bass instructional books of all time.
It wasn’t until much later that I learned Ed’s true opinion of his books.
I was speaking to Ed at a bass event in Germany, and I mentioned what a huge influence his books had been.
“Oh those?” he said. “I never really got to the essence with them. I thought they were too broad.”
That’s when the lightbulb went off: what if I could help Ed produce a masterclass.
What if we could make the course Ed was aiming at when he wrote the books…
...only better.
More specific.
With the benefit of Ed’s substantial experience after the original books were published. And, most importantly, with all the advantages of modern video production. And it’s that resource that I want to offer to you today…
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8 LESSONS [3+ HOURS VIDEO FOOTAGE] BEGINNER TO ADVANCED
Beginning Walking Bass Lines explores the key ingredients necessary to understand and master the creation of great walking bass lines. When creating this course, Ed was determined to create a program that would give you a clear, laser focused approach to creating your own walking bass lines, and we’re happy to announce he nailed it!
You’re going to start off with clear, functional walking bass lines focused on root notes, and then progress through to more sophisticated lines using chord tones in conjunction with scale tones and half step approach notes in multiple keys.
Throughout this course you will be focusing on the I VI II V progression in multiple keys up and down the fingerboard, leaving no stone unturned. If you don’t know the notes of your neck you certainly will after you’ve completed this course! You’ll be studying the exact same methods used by the jazz greats such as Ray Brown, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter and Christian McBride.
Each lesson moves on directly from the previous lesson and includes play-along exercises, suggested practice methods and much more.
The goal of this course is to give you the tools you need to create great walking bass lines, all over the neck, in any key.
- Access to 6+ hours of Ed’s live stream recordings ($147 value)
- 3+ Additional hours of pre-recorded seminars with Scott Devine ($147 value)
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INSTRUCTOR
A graduate of the High School of Music and Art in New York City, and a former member of the Bass Department at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Ed Friedland has forged a reputation as one of the bass world’s top educators. He’s also one of the most published, thanks to his tuition books, instructional videos and regular columns for Bass Player Magazine.
As a sideman, Ed's performance credits include the Mavericks, Larry Coryell, Michal Urbaniak, Robben Ford, Mike Metheny, Martha and the Vandellas, The Drifters and many more.
TESTIMONIALS
“I think the one big thing I did to move my playing forward in the last year or so, was Ed Friedland’s Walking Bass Lines Bootcamp. It opened my eyes to all sorts of stuff and not only Jazz related… excellent course!”
Pieter May1
“The Ed Friedland walking bass bootcamp was so worth it! After working through the steps with Ed, I found my finger started to find their own way around the various I vi ii V patterns he taught, without me having to think much about it. So worth it!”
Sonic Butter
“IMHO - Ed is one of the best Bass educators out there. Working through the course, learning and enjoying it mucho.”
George
What You’ll Learn
Lessons in the Course
- Understanding the hidden geometry of the fingerboard
- Introduction to the i vi ii v
- The rules ascending and descending
- Root note discovery
- The roman numeral system
- Box shapes - what they are and how to use them
- Using geometry within your bass lines
- Using 5ths within your walking lines
- Fretboard efficiency
- Approach notes what they are and how to use them
- The chromatic approach
- Breaking free from the mechanical mindset
- Using tension and release correctly
- Getting a jazz sound
- Plucking hand positioning
- Using scale notes within your walking lines
- Expected jazz tempos
- The dominant approach
- Introducing "Rhythm Changes"
- The i vi relationship
- "Rhythm Changes" Wrapping up the A section
- "Rhythm Changes" Introducing the bridge
- Understanding the AABA form
- The strong/weak beat concept
- Second target notes
- Introducing triads into your walking bass lines
- Expanding your chromatic concept
- Triadic fingerboard discovery
- Introducing the full form of Rhythm Changes
- Full course recap
- Big picture concepts
- Form recap
- The importance of improvising
- Playing at different tempos
- The importance of repertoire
- Common jazz resources
- Other walking bass resources
- The importance of transcribing and the different methods
(FROM THE LIVE EVENTS THAT WERE RUN DURING THE LIVE BOOTCAMP)
- The Welcome Party x2
- Your MidTerm Check Up x2
- End of Term Wrap Up and Final Q & A x2
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CLASS BONUS ($300 VALUE)
Any world class educational program needs to be interactive. It’s what’s going to keep you motivated, accountable, and give you the ability to get answers to any questions you may have.
That’s why we knew we had to create an amazing live-stream bonus for The Ed Friedland Bootcamp. Thankfully with today’s technology we now have the ability to stream these live classes around the globe. So wherever you are based, you can tune in, interact with you fellow students, and ask the man himself whatever burning questions you may have, in real-time.
Usually to get this type of interaction with Ed you’d have to be a student at Berklee College of Music (where Ed is a faculty member), but let’s not talk about how many thousands of dollars that would cost (a lot!). We’ve included these interactive live classes with Ed, at no extra cost.
And don’t worry. If for any reason you can’t make one of the live classes, they are recorded and uploaded into the masterclass portal within 24hrs after going live, so you can catch the replay in your own time, and at your own pace.
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