HOW TO CRAT A WALKING A LIN
If ou know how to create a walking a line, ou can e more creative in our jazz plaing. A walking a line i a more creative form of a plaing
than the other wing tle ecaue ou chooe new note each time ou pla the ame ong.
A walking a line impl walk through the appropriate cale of each chord, one note per eat, hitting ever eat of each meaure. The walking a
line wa developed upright ait like Ra rown, Milt Hinton, Paul Chamer, and Ron Carter, ut now it’ alo commonl plaed on the a
guitar.
Creating a walking a line i one of the more eluive art form in the a world, ut if ou undertand how to put it together, tep tep (pun
intended), it won’t eem o frightening. The formula for a ucceful walking a line i imple:
1 eat One: Determine the chord tonalit (major, minor, dominant, or half-diminihed) and pla the root of that chord.
2 eat Two: Pla an chord tone of the chord, or an note in the cale related to that chord.
3 eat Three: Pla an chord tone or cale tone of the chord.
Yep — ame a tep 2, ut tr to pick a di erent note.
4 eat Four: Pla a leading tone to the next root.
A leading tone lead from one chord to the next. The leading tone prepare the litener’ ear for the ound of the new chord. The mot
important point to undertand aout a leading tone i that it aim for the following chord’ root. For example, if ou’re going from a C chord to
an F chord, our leading tone lead to F (never mind the C).
Leading tone come in three tpe:
Chromatic (half-tep)
Diatonic (cale)
Dominant (the 5 of the new chord)
The following gure how the location of each tpe of leading tone. The root of the new chord i repreented the open circle; the leading
tone are repreented the olid dot. The arrow how which wa the leading tone move to reolve to the root of the new chord.
You can walk through almot an jazz tune. To demontrate the jazz walking tle properl, the following gure how ou how to walk in a jazz lue
progreion. In the gure, the chord are printed aove each grid. The mode for each chord are clearl marked, and the leading tone are the lat note
in each equence (follow the arrow). You can tart thi progreion on an root. Thi lue progreion i written in , ut if omeone ak for a jazz
lue in C, jut move the whole pattern up two fret (toward the ridge of the a) and tart our rt note on C.
the wa, plaing thi pattern i ea (depite the complex ound) ecaue ou don’t have to hift our left hand. Jut make ure that ou tart the
pattern with our middle nger.
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