Fly Me To The Moon is a great jazz standard for bassists looking to develop and learn the walking bass style.
In this lesson, I have a sample walking bass line for you, which I'll analyze and use to teach you various devices you can incorporate into your own lines.
Scroll down to download the sample line, TAB/notation, and a backing track.
Fly Me To The Moon Sample Bass Line & Backing Track
Useful Jazz Bass Lessons
In the lesson, I mention a few chord-tone (or arpeggio)- based lessons. It's crucial to know them, and here are some of those lessons:
- The 5 Bass Arpeggios Every Jazz Player Needs
- 6 Important Arpeggios Every Bassist Should Learn
- The Only 4 Arpeggios You Need To Play (Most) Jazz Standards
To go much deeper into arpeggios, modes, chord progressions, and more, check out Music Theory For Bass Players.
I love it when you cover jazz standards. 🙂
Helpful that you provide a backing track and so fun to play along.
Thank You!
Thanks, Tim. I’ll do more…
Dan,
Thanks, my friend! Just what I needed , as we added this tune last week to our sets and now here’s a whole approach to keeping the changes fresh after many times through them. Great work !
David
Thanks! Glad it helped you.
Excellent suite of lessons here – well organised, incremental in nature and highly useful in developing bass playing knowledge and skills
Thanks, David.