Walking bass for guitar (2)

Let's try a descending walking bass line.



Notice that in both examples seen up to now, the 5th of the Dm7 chord falls on beat 3. If we had tried a scalar approach in this example we would have started on the root "D", descended to its 7th "C" and on beat three would have landed on its 6th "B". Not a good note for the 3rd beat. Bass players strive to play roots on beat 1 and 5ths on the beat 3. It defines more clearly the harmony. Again we finish with a chromatic note to lead us smoothly into the root of the new bar.