Look who is teaching in this video

[ByHisSpirit]

Got this link in my mail box today:
http://www.BreakthroughBassPlaying.com/video3.html

Guess who is teaching on there? A tip: he has a seperate place on the forum here, his first name starts with a J and end in anek...

Not expected Mr. Sampson to work with J. Gwizdala ;-)

Blessings,
F

[onlyclave]

It's actually a nice lesson with Janek. I would have to point out that "being melodic" is pretty vague and hard to teach. If you listen carefully, all of Janek's phrases have excellent time. You can play any and all wrong notes that you want while you solo but if you have killin' time it will still sound good.

[ridgeback]

nice lesson..its quite similar to what paul mccartney used to do for his bass lines..read a long time ago he used to record the bass part last so he could use the vocals as something to play against to create more melody in the song...

[varunkapahi]

most of the ideas are exactly the same from victor wooten's aproach. check out the music lesson book and groove workshop dvd for that but he has been expressing these same ideas from way back? kinda really taken aback to see someone else rehashing those same ideas hmm...

[ByHisSpirit]

Hey Varunkapahi,

Noticed the same thing, wrote it in the comment section... Nothing 'new' in the introduction section.

However, it is nice to see some lessons with Janek Gwizdala, who is a very melodic, fluent and accomplished player!

Be blessed,
Fernando

[varunkapahi]

Originally Posted by ByHisSpirit

Hey Varunkapahi,

Noticed the same thing, wrote it in the comment section... Nothing 'new' in the introduction section.

However, it is nice to see some lessons with Janek Gwizdala, who is a very melodic, fluent and accomplished player!

Be blessed,
Fernando

whats even more surprising is that the 159 lick is a wooten staple thing. he plays it all the time in all his videos heh
interestingly the page says my comment is up for moderation :-/

[ByHisSpirit]

The 1-5-9 lick is taken from that Police song 'Every breath you take', no? ;-) Full of copyright inflictions ;-) haha

[varunkapahi]

Originally Posted by ByHisSpirit

The 1-5-9 lick is taken from that Police song 'Every breath you take', no? ;-) Full of copyright inflictions ;-) haha

heh i just meant really how close is that video to the victors ideas

[SteveC]

Everyone uses 1-5-9.

Very inspiring video. I need to get after that stuff. My soloing in our jazz quartet sucks. I'm in a rut and it's not even a good rut.

[mambo4]

I watched (well, listened to) all three vids. They are very slick. I'm always skeptical & put off by any thing that smacks of sales speak on such vids:
"3 Things Top Bass Players Do Daily..."
"The Unexpected Ingredient In Almost Every Memorable Bass Line..."
"7 TOP NOTCH PHRASES ..."
Even referring to Janek as "mr X " seems contrived.

But honestly, if you wade through the fluff there is some useful stuff in there, and I do like the meat of Alex's approach:

"3 Things Top Bass Players Do Daily,..."
1.) have (develope, explore) their own ideas
2.) increase musical vocabulary (by learning phrases)
3.) transcribe

"The Unexpected Ingredient ..."
Melodic content. For fills and "in between" holding down the rhythm parts. Based on lots of the above concepts -not just uninformed, random melodic content.

"7 TOP NOTCH PHRASES..."
Basically a break down of the fills and phrases of his version of MJ's "Rock With You". I was personally annoyed that he talked in frets and strings(TAB) instead of chord and scale tones (music) most of the time. (Janek always spoke in music terms) But he did stress that each fill described was not just to be learned verbatim, but a phrase to be added to you musical vocabulary, and should be practiced all over the neck, internalized etc. which is how you should approach any phrase you learn. (aka "practice in all keys")

i'll probably check back and see what else he has to say in the future.