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Open Studio artist Christian McBride discusses some tips for keeping your bass lines tight.

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Christian McBride is a six-time GRAMMY® Award-winning bassist/composer who, since the early ‘90s, has recorded over 300 dates as a sideman and released albums as a leader since ’95. Aside from various stints with Sting, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes, John McLaughlin, and George Duke, among others, McBride has been artist-in-residence and artistic director with organizations such as Jazz Aspen, Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Jazz Museum in Harlem, Jazz House Kids, and NJPAC (New Jersey Performing Arts Center - Newark).
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One of the keys to putting together a good bass line is making sure they’re linear - meaning that they don’t jump around and skip around a lot.

You don’t want to put together a walking bass line where you kind of like

— [whack, non-linear bass lines] —

I’ve actually heard some bass players do that. I really have. It’s not good.

Keep you lines so they go just like this – up and down hill, up and down hill.

If you want to break it up a little bit, make sure there’s a pattern inside of what you’re doing so it makes some sense.

-- [non-whack, nice bass line} --

I’ll break it up a little bit.

-- [more nice walking lines] --

Even when I’m making the jump, I keep it linear from there.

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