EXPANDING WALKING BASS LINES.
LIBRO PER BASSO CON CD
Expanding Walking Bass Lines
BASS BUILDERS
Series: Bass Instruction
ormat: Softcover with CD
Author: Ed Friedland
A follow-up to Building Walking Bass Lines, this book approaches more advanced walking concepts, including model mapping, the two-feel, several 'must know changes,' and other important jazz bass lessons. CD includes a jazz trio for practicing standard tunes.
Inventory #HL 00695026
ISBN: 9780793545865
UPC: 073999950267
Width: 9.0"
Length: 12.0"
56 pages
- PRE-RECORDED JAZZ TRIO FOR PRACTING STANDARD TUNES
- SCALES TONES, CHROMATIC PASSING TONES AND NON-CHORD TONES
- INTERPRETATION OF CHORD SYMBOLS WITH TENSIONS
- PLAYING OVER MODAL TUNES
- PEDAL POINTS
- EXPANDING THE ''TWO'' FEEL
- RHYTHM ESSENTIALS
Preface
In the first book of this method, Building Walking Bass Lines, we learned many of the basic skills needed to create good, solid lines from a set of chord changes. The techniques discussed were: finding the root motion, adding the fifth, approach techniques (chromatic, dominant and scale), scale wise motion, resolving to chord tones other than the root, arpeggiation, indirect resolution, and chromatic motion.
If you are not familiar with these concepts, I recommend you use Building Walking Bass Lines before attempting to work through the material in this book. It is crucial to your understanding to have a good foundation with the rudiments of walking. The information presented in this book will be most useful to those who have a firm grasp of these basic skills.
Goal Statement
This book will expand on your knowledge of the basics by focusing on some of the finer points of walking bass lines. You will be exposed to some practical concepts to help you become more functional in a jazz rhythm section. We will branch out from the "straight ahead" and learn to stretch the boundaries of tonality.
It is also a goal of this method to provide you with an opportunity to experience some "real world" situations and develop the skills to cope with them.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to my family. Sonia, LeeEllen and Aimee Friedland, and David Taylor. Thanks also to Jim Roberts Bat Bass Player Magazine, Larry Fishman of Fishman Transducers, Bill Brinkley, Michael Merrill, Tom Hamilton, Athena, Lu Ann, Ed Siegfried, Dave Flores, and everyone at Carvin, and GHS strings.
About the Author
Ed Friedland is a graduate of the High School of Music and Art in
New York City, and a former faculty member of Berklee College of
Music and Boston College. He is a frequent contributor to Bass
Player Magazine. His performance credits include Larry Coryell,
Michal Urbaniak, Robben Ford, Mike Metheny, Johnny Adams,
Linda Hopkins, Robert Junior Lockwood, Barrence Whitfield and the
Savages, Martha and the Vandellas, The Drifters, Brook Benton, the
Boston and Tokyo productions of Little Shop of Horrors, the Opera
company of Boston, and the Boston production of A Closer Walk with
Patsy Cline. Ed is involved in producing and arranging with Bass
Station Music. He has a M.Ed. from Cambridge College, Cambridge,
Massachusetts. He uses Carvin basses, GHS strings and Fishman
transducers. Ed resides in Tucson, Arizon. Photo: Jean Hangarter
Using the Audio
The audio portion of this method is of equal importance to the text, since learning to walk without the
opportunity to hear the lines is an incomplete experience. In view of the scarcity of clubs around the world
where you can go sit in and experiment, I have provided an alternative. However, if you have the opportunity
to play at a jam session, or do a jazz gig, by all means take it. There is no replacement for the actual experience
of playing in a live rhythm section. I hope you will get to play with players as great as the ones I hired for this recording, Brad Hatfield on piano and Jim Lattini on drums.
This method's audio uses a split-stereo mix with piano and drums on the left channel, and bass and drums on the right channel. This configuration will allow you to turn off the bass track and play with the piano and drums. It will also make it easier to hear the bass track when learning the lines by ear, and transcription.
The examples in the book marked with a CD.
icon have a number that corresponds to the number on the audio. The example number is given and then counted off with a click. The click is a two measure count off, two half notes, and three quarter notes, leaving beat four of measure two blank. For example: 1. .. 2 ... 1, 2, 3, ... (play).
There are many opportunities in the book to create your own lines. These are the examples with chord symbols and slashes without a specific written bass line. It is more common for the bass player to encounter this type of reading in the real world, so these examples are very important. The bass lines for these examples are not written in the book, so they provide an excellent opportunity to practice learning by ear. Go the extra mile and transcribe these bass lines. Writing music on paper is one of the best ways to improve your ability to read music. Remember, you can use any of the chord progressions presented to practice any technique learned. If you want to practice fingered triplets with a progression from another part of the book, go ahead.
The last section of the book, the Appendix, includes ten jazz progressions. The last three progressions have no chord changes written. These "mystery tunes" are included to provide you with the challenge of learning a song completely by ear, with no prior iMormation given. As difficult as this may seem, thousands of bassists do it all the time. "Faking" tunes is an important skill that bass players must have to survive in the real world. It is not my intention to have this book become a full-scale primer of all the background information one needs to develop this skill; that comes from years of experience. There are suggestions given to help you develop an awareness of the process, things to listen for, hints about form, but nothing concrete.
This process is more like sorcery than science.
This book will not guarantee your ability to swim when you're thrown into the deep end of the pool, but it may save you from drowning! Stick with it, give it time, and keep your ears open!
Table of Contents
Preface .
Goal Statement .
Acknowledgements .
About the Author .
Using the Audio .
Fine Tuning Your Time Feel .
Part One
Overview .
A Disclaimer .
Introducing Rhythms .
Eighth Note Triplets .
Rests .
Combining Rhythms and Rests .
Adding Rhythmic Embellishment .
More Practice with Skips ,
Skips with Dead Notes .
Lift-off Dead Notes ,
Putting It Together .
Using Triplets .
Even More Triplets .
Triplets with Dead Notes .
Expanding the "Two" Feel .
Part Two
Overview .
Targeting Non-chord Tones .
U sing Scale Tones as Targets .
U sing Chromatic Passing Tones as Targets .
Interpreting Chord Symbols with Tensions .
Playing Over Modal Tunes .
Create Your Own Modal Map .
Pedal Points .
A Listening Assignment .
Walking Open: The Art of Implied Harmony .
A Closing Word .
Appendix
U sing the Appendix .
Tune 1: ABAC form .
Tune 2: "Rhythm Changes" A section .
Tune 3: Several Key Centers in A section .
Tune 4: "Expanded Two Feel" .
Tune 5: Modal .
Tune 6: Bridge Modulations .
Tune 7: Repetitive A section .
Three Mystery Tunes .
Things to Consider .
Things You Should Know .
Things You Can Do .
Notation Legend .
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