Sight Reading - Book 9 - Jazz Blues Walking

This book presents a fundamental of the jazz style, Blues. Sight Reading Book Nine - Jazz Blues Walking consists of one thousand, four hundred sixty- four measures of walking bass over the jazz blues chord changes. While the notation provides excellent reading practice, each twelve-measure phrase can be used as a model for you to copy and study.

Good walking bass lines are not random notes. Good walking is based on the jazz language. From this book you can learn the musical language used by great bass players like Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, Sam Jones, Doug Watkins, Israel Crosby, Jimmy Garrison, and Christian McBride.