Plectrum style walking bass

[christianm77]

Dim7s are your friend (general truth)

[Melodic Dreamer]

Nice thread. A lot of good stuff here.

[Dave70]

Cool little walking segment where Ted plays with the pick then changes to fingers around 7:16:

[grahambop]

Some more good stuff:

The 20 Essential Rhythm Guitar Voicings — Jonathan Stout and his Campus Five featuring Hilary Alexander

[mr. beaumont]

The Stout voicings are great--they are very similar to the "Ranger Doug" chords...they're the good ones, kids!

[55bar]

I remember Jim Hall talking about this...he said with a good strong bassline, you can get away with a lot on the chord stabs...

A very fun way to play--when there's no bassist!

I learned nearly everything from this:

Jim Hall's "My Funny Valentine" Chordal Comping Transcription



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[christianm77]

I learned nearly everything from this:

Jim Hall's "My Funny Valentine" Chordal Comping Transcription



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I never transcribed that actually, but I remember being influenced by the sound of it - thanks for the link!

[mr. beaumont]

Dim7s are your friend (general truth)

Indeed. They're like chord glue.

[MarkRhodes]

Though this is fingerstyle, not plectrum, it's one of the best primers of playing walking bass lines on a jazz guitar that I have seen.

[johnnyjazz]

I prefer using fingers.

[lawson-stone]

the old video by Joe Pass "Solo jazz Guitar" actually has a lot of this in it.