Alex Ramirez Welcome Bass Players!! Our goals for this session are: Review basic bass playing techniques Analyze famous.

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Presentation transcript:

Alex Ramirez

Welcome Bass Players!! Our goals for this session are: Review basic bass playing techniques Analyze famous bass lines Create our own bass grooves and fills

Session Overview Getting Started (15 min.) Review of left- and right hand techniques Analyzing Bass Lines (20 min.) Scale structures Chord Structures Creating Bass Lines (25 min.) Rock Blues Funk

Getting Started Comparing the bass and guitar Tuning the bass 7 th fret tuning Right hand techniques Finger-style (walking) Pick-style (plectrum) Slapping/Popping : “Running with the Devil” Dead Notes

Analyzing Bass Lines “I Just Called to Say I Love You” Root, 5 th, Octave “Brown-Eyed Girl” Root, 3 rd, 5 th “Jailhouse Rock” Pentatonic “Play that Funky Music” Minor Pentatonic (Root, 4 th, 5 th, 7 th )

Creating Bass Grooves Deconstructing “Stand By Me” Rhythmic and harmonic elements Rock Groove One Note Triad Blues Pentatonic Funk Minor Pentatonic

Common Bass Fill Shapes

Tips for LKR Classrooms Keep the basses playing Young bassists need to build stamina! Support Guitar, Keyboards, Drums Maintain proper technique Left-hand (all fingers down) Right-hand (coordination + tone quality= success) Encourage study of upright bass Many bassists play both Continue development on bass guitar

Recommended Listening: Jaco Pasotorius (jazz): Weather Report, Modern Bass Guitar (video), solo work Paul McCartney (rock): any Beatles album John Paul Jones (rock): Led Zeppelin Victor Wooten (jazz): Bela Fleck, solo work, videos Steve Harris (heavy metal): Iron Maiden Cliff Burton (heavy metal): Metallica Jeff Berlin (jazz): solo work

Congratulations! You are now an awesome bass player! You have learned how to: Create your own bass lines Create your own grooves and fills Be totally funkadelic

Thank You! The End