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Bass Bassics

Bass Bassics. Alex Ramirez Email: aaramirez@charter.net. 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.)

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Bass Bassics

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  1. Bass Bassics Alex Ramirez Email: aaramirez@charter.net

  2. 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

  3. 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

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

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

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

  7. Common Bass Fill Shapes

  8. 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

  9. Recommended Listening: • JacoPasotorius (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

  10. 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

  11. Thank You! • The End

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