Cool line, Brett, and many thanks.

Years ( decades actually) ago, I was at BIT at the same time Jeff was there. One of my instructors, George Lopez, taught me a similar bassline. George did not bill it as "perfect" but touted it as an interesting " all purpose" jazz- blues 12-bar bassline. As a learning tool, George challenged us to come up with good turnarounds for it.

By happenstance, I have been working on an arrangement for George's bassline for Stick recently. Its cool because its not particularly complicated, but uses chromatic runs and leading tones ( so it makes you sound more bad ass than you really are.....lol). Also, whilr you can pull it off in one position on bass, Stick in 5ths tuning forces you to move your hands on this bassline so it can help break you out of the dreaded " type writing" habit.....

I hope to post the bassline here, with some appropriate right hand chords, in the next few weeks or so. Sadly, "real life" gets in the way of these projects of mine so forgive me if I cannot post as soon as I hope to......

Looking forward to it! At the moment, all of my bass lines are totally created by playing "let's pretend" hahaha

It's a Compass kinda' thing. Available for navigational assistance

Steve A

hahaha I am pretty much beyond help, thanks though!

Brett:

For the reasons I outlined in my older post above, I am thinking of taking "The Perfect Walking Bass Line" and transposing it into G and grafting it into my "Gee-Low Jazz Blues" that I posted in the other thread. Given the shared provenance of both lines (Musician's Institute circa 1980's) and the overall similarity, I bet it'll work just fine.....

Yes of course, transpose into all/any keys! It’s a great example to be learned from and expanded upon.

Brett