Chords for Moondance with walking bass

Hello there.
_ We're going to do something _ _ _ a little different.
We're going to do what's
called a walking bass.
Now, a walking bass is where you have a bass line that's moving around
[A] _ [G] _ _ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
[C] while you're playing chords.
So [G#m] we're going to do both these at the same time.
So this is for you finger pickers out there [G#] who've been using your thumb _ [G#] and doing [C] _
_ [G] the
Travis pick or something where you have your fingers doing one thing and your thumb keeping
the time.
We're going to use an old Van Morrison song called [A] Moon Dance as a starting point.
So
what we're going to do is we're going to start off _ on the sixth string, [F#] fifth fret, [G#] which is an A
note.
[A] _ _ And you're going to play this bass line.
_ [G#] Now you're going to do it with your middle finger.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ [C] Fifth, eighth, _ _ _ [B] seventh. _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] You're just going to keep doing that.
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [B] _ _
Those notes, by [A] the way, are A, [C] C,
B.
_ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
So the thumb keeps doing that.
Now we're going to add the chords.
We're going to have [G] two chords
that we add.
We're going to play [E] an A minor seventh [G#] chord [A] while we're here. _
_ _ Now this [F#] is going to be a
little tricky for those of you who've never done it.
[D] We're going to take our _ _ ring finger and we're
going to [C] smoosh _ _ _ the second, third, and fourth [N] strings, the B, the G, and the D, _ all on the fifth fret while
[A] that _ [Cm] middle _ [G] _ _ finger is on the fifth [A] fret of the low string.
_ _ Now if you've never done that, you're
going to have to work on [F#] this chord.
This is a [Am] toughie.
_ [E] Some people play it like this with their [Am] thumb.
_ _ _ [G]
There's [G#] all kinds of ways of doing this chord, but this is how I do [A] it.
_ [C] _ _ All right, so the
four notes that you need are the low E string on the fifth fret [F#] and then the B, [G] the G, and the [C] D
_ _ on the fifth as well.
[F#] _ _ So what happens is we start with this bass note, bass line, [A] excuse me,
_ [F#] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [A] _ _ [C] _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ [A] _ _ [C] _ [B] _ [E] and then when we get to the fifth fret, [Am] _ _ _
we're going to grab all of those [D] together.
We're [G#] going to grab
[A] _
_ the bass note on the fifth fret of the low E string [C] and _ _ _ those three notes on the second,
third, [G#] and fourth strings.
So we play all together [C] like this. _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ [E] _ _ _
You're just going to do that for a while
until that feels doable. _
[C] Then _ _ [E] you _ [B]
get to the seventh fret, the B note.
You're going to do the
same chord shape, [Bm] _ _ which when you play it on the seventh fret, it's a B minor seventh.
[F#] _ _ So you're
going to get [Am] this _ _ [C] _ [Bm] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] _ again.
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ Now one of the cool sounds that you [G#] can get is when you play this B minor
[Bm] seventh chord, _ _ [E] _
_ you can leave these three _ and play the open E with it. _ _ _
You get E11.
It's a nice
sounding chord.
So here's what it sounds like [C] all together. _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ [C] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [E] _
_ [A] _ Then once [E] that feels good, you can start
staggering the chords.
[G#m] What do I mean by that?
Put them either before or after the bass [F#] note,
either half a beat before or half a beat after like [Am] this.
_ [C] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [E] _ _ [A] _ [C] _ _ _
[B] _ [D] _ _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ You can see that [F#] when [G] you play that _ _
[F#] chord half a beat after, it's a pretty quick jump up to that B minor,
[Am] _ _ [A] I mean after the C note, excuse me.
[C] _ _ _ _ [E] _ So you might want to do that one [Am] on the beat [C] and _ then do [D] the
B minor _ [B] _ [Bm] _ after _ the bass [E] note because then you have a little more time.
_ _ _ [Bm] _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [Am] Okay, _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] so that'll get you started.
That's the idea.
_ At least it gives it all [F#] one _
[A] line,
one [E] string.
_ _ [C]
Chord's a [B] little tough, but if you want to get into [E] this kind of playing
with this sort of jazzy chords, _ you got to do it.