This week we’re looking at some cool little bass chords you can use to juice up your bass lines, riffs and fills.
Double Stops
Double Stops are just two notes played together. This could be an interval like a 5th, 3rd or 10th. But we can also add ornaments and embellishments like hammer on’s into the equation to give us something a little different.
In this lesson we’ll take a look at a basic fourth interval combined with a hammer on to provide a really cool, slinky feel.
Bass Riff
Practice Track:
You basically explained a scale shape and notes all over the fretboard in a simple and short manner, while putting that scale into a piece of music.
Videos like these are perfect to improve a lot faster!
Amen!
Mark a course on Chordal Harmony please.
Hi Mark/Talkingbass. In this lesson you asked us to provide hints at some contents which may help further strengthen the already amazing Talkingbass web site. Below I am going to make three suggestions that I think students could benefit from. I know I certainly would. Firstly, is there a way that you could briefly either verbally or in the notes state what specific sound setup you are using for any particular lesson/demo, i.e, active/passive, pickups, mid, bass, treble etc. (Apologies for stating the obvious here duh but…..lol)? Secondly, in adhering to the R.A.I.S.E practice paradigm why not actually film a whole lesson actually going through each of the disciplines? Pick a particular piece and begin by braking it down in notation only, no tab. Then move on to break it down theoretically. Following that you could break the piece up and demonstrate how one can improvise new material based on all aspects of that very piece. The next step using the same piece you could demonstrate different styles. The most obvious is slapping to normal plucking and vice versa. Lastly I see no reason why , again using the same piece, you couldn’t do an ear training excercise. Pluck a note or even a chord without showing it and ask the audience to pick out the correct notes/chord on fretboard. You then provide the correct answer and students can see how accurate or otherwise they were at a particular point. Thirdly, and this is more a personal request, is there any chance that you could cover Jaco’s Teen Town as played on Weather Report’s Heavy Weather album? I find this piece tremendously challenging not least rhythmically. You’ve covered Rhythm stick which is tons of fun but I think Teen Town is the one to nail where Jaco’s style is concerned, and I obviously like that very much. Yet I also believe nailing Teen Town is of incalculable value to all players, particularly where timing is concerned. Please accept my apologies if any of my suggestions are already available on Talkingbass.. The contents are vast providing an extraordinary broad and diverse range of material suitable to virtually every bass player out there whatever style or standard. Keep up the good work Mark. Only the craft of a seasoned novelist could adequately describe how much I enjoy working on Talkingbass material and how much my playing has improved as a direct result! Thank you!!!!
Great lesson. More double stop and triple stop lessons, if possible. More odd time signatures, i.e. your Flower Punk lesson. Also, anything in which finger picking is the preferable technique. Rhythm Stick was definitely fun, as was the Bach Violin Partita.
Hi Mark, great stuff!
My only comment would be to please write down the tempo setting of your drum tracks.
Thank you
pls can u break it down idont understand note