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Showing posts with label Constructing Bass Lines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Constructing Bass Lines. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Devising Bass Lines for Jazz Standards

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Last week my jazz group had a gig at the Slapface Coffee & Tea Cafe in Fremont, CA.  To prepare for the gig, I practiced the songs on my...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Building Great Bass Lines

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If you want to be a great bass player, you need to understand chord structures and bass lines.  A great bass line is a string of notes that ...
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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Now That I Read Notes, a Lot of Practice Manuals Become Useful (#PlayingBass)

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Five or so years ago, after I got a carved string bass, I set about trying to learn to play it.  I went on Amazon.com, and bought several bo...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Decoding the Upright Bass: Voice Leading

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A few years ago I became very interested in how a computer works, so studied various programming languages, i.e. machine language, Basic and...
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