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Join the Better Bass Lessons email list and get one of Cole Davis’s $7 lesson packs free, matched to your bass. You’ll also get five short emails from him over one week on making a walking bass line move, plus the free Walking Bass Line Builder to practice with.
What’s in each pack
Upright: The Paul Chambers Pack. Three of Cole’s Paul Chambers lessons, each with a video and a PDF: So What, his 2-feel on Freddie Freeloader, and Bye Bye Blackbird. Every demonstration is played on the upright.
Electric: The Electric Walking Pack. Two of Cole’s electric walking challenges, Walk Like Ray Brown and Walk Like Paul Chambers, plus two pocket lessons from Paul “Papa Bear” Johnson. Every move is written as numbers, like 1-7-6-5, so you learn it once and it’s already in every key.
What the emails cover
- The three ways beat four can lead into the next bar, and how to hear the difference on your own line.
- Why a line that lands the same way every bar starts to sound like a list, and what to do about it.
- How the great walkers phrase in two-bar sentences, and why they don’t all agree on where the sentence ends.
Want to see what the emails are like first? Read some of Cole’s past emails.
Cole is a Juilliard-trained New York bassist who studied with Ron Carter. The emails are short, and some of them tell you about his courses. Unsubscribe any time.
More free tools
Walking Bass Line Builder, Jazz Jam Finder, backing tracks with no bass, slow-down tool for transcribing and everything else in the toolkit.