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Jazz Bass Building Blocks - Intro
by Frank Russ (157)
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1
Suggested Tempo: 150
Jazz Bass Building
Blocks
Intro
I started this course to
offer lessons that will help you memorize the basics of Bass
vocabulary, increase your comfort with the fretboard, and offer
you insights on how to improvise.
I played bass for several years before really
understanding how to approach an improvised line. I could play
fairly complicated lines, but I still wasn't progressing in
gaining the knowledge necessary to improvise freely. This course
will attempt to summarize the essentials you need to know to
start speaking on your bass.
Music is a language, and like any language, you
need to learn words before you can assemble them into sentences.
The first section of this course will concentrate on memorizing
those words -- the modes of the major and minor scales.
In later sections, we'll dissect bass lines and
relate them to the building blocks we learned at the beginning of
the course.
This course will be a work in progress. I
didn't want to write it entirely before starting to publish the
first sections. It will be modified regularly, so if you are
following along, check back. I encourage you to offer me feedback
-- positive And negative :-) -- and I'll use the feedback to
improve this course.
I'll use the remaining part of this lesson to
offer an index of lessons as they are published. Check back here
regularly to see what was added.
Index:
Unit 1 - The Vocabulary
Jazz Bass Building Blocks
- Intro
Jazz Bass Building Blocks
- Part 1 - the major and minor modes
Jazz Bass Building Blocks
- Part 2 - mode workout
Jazz Bass Building Blocks
- Part 3 - completing the mode workout - coming soon
Unit 2 - Diagramming sentences -
dissecting bass lines - coming soon
