Struggling to make your bass solos sound musical instead of random notes? You’re not alone! Most bass players jump into soloing with scales but forget the special ingredient that binds it all together! This lesson is taken from the new course here at TalkingBass: The Creative Bassist. Check Out The Course Here The Secret to…
This week we’re finishing our look at Jazz Standards and our focus on the Jazz Blues classic Billie’s Bounce by Charlie Parker. In this lesson we’ll be looking at THE most important practice you can do for learning to solo: Transcription. We’ve got tips on every aspect of the transcription process and we’ll be breaking…
This week we’re continuing our look at jazz standard practice by looking at improvising a bass solo through the Charlie Parker jazz blues ‘Billie’s Bounce’. Learning to solo requires practice and development of vocabulary. There are no ‘hacks’ or easy solutions but in this lesson we’ll be looking at some simple tips for getting started…
This lesson addresses one of the biggest problems I see in students when trying to solo through chord changes. As bass players we deal with root notes of chords a lot. So when it comes to that time to solo we automatically aim for the root note and then take it from there. In this…
This lesson is the fifth in the Bass Improvisation Series that aims to provide an introduction to improvising for those just getting started. This lesson deals with small 4 note phrases and how we can apply the permutation concept we covered with the 3 note phrases. Sequences 4 Note Permutations Starting On Root: 1357 1375 1537…
This lesson is the fourth in the Bass series of lessons on Bass Solo Improvisation. This week I’m giving some pointers as to how you can style your soloing by using vibrato, slides, dynamics, accents and ghost notes.
This lesson is the third in the Bass Improvisation Series that aims to provide an introduction to improvising for those just getting started. This lesson deals with small 3 note phrases and how to get more mileage out of small 2 and 3 note fragments. This can involve breaking a 3 note phrase into three…
This lesson is the second in the Bass Improvisation Series that aims to provide an introduction to improvising for those just getting started. This lesson deals with small 2 note phrases as a means of moving between chord tones and a way of getting a feel for the various combinations of sounds over a particular…