I've been recently been working out of Carol Kaye's book electric bass line #3. I'm having some trouble with the reading practice material. Some Of songs show the chord changes and other songs don't. How do you tell the different chord changes in the bars when none of them are listed above. Or should I assume it's all the same chord
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Nine times out of ten you would keep using the last chord, i.e. the chord may be active for more than one bar. Simple three chord songs may keep a chord active for several bars.
Also be aware some chord changes will happen mid bar. An example of this is when you have two chords in one bar. Are they both active for 2 beats each? Another thing is the chord change can come on the lyric syllables - some time the chord change will not come until the second syllable of a lyric word. For example:
Hap-py, birth-day, etc. Our job is to hit the chord changes dead on. It'll come, keep doing what you are doing. Invalid Link Removed
But to answer your question, we take for granted the old chord lives till a new chord is shown in the sheet music.
Happy trails.
Also be aware some chord changes will happen mid bar. An example of this is when you have two chords in one bar. Are they both active for 2 beats each? Another thing is the chord change can come on the lyric syllables - some time the chord change will not come until the second syllable of a lyric word. For example:
Hap-py, birth-day, etc. Our job is to hit the chord changes dead on. It'll come, keep doing what you are doing. Invalid Link Removed
But to answer your question, we take for granted the old chord lives till a new chord is shown in the sheet music.
Happy trails.
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A lot of the book is scalar based exercises in various keys. Some of the lines are not but my guess would be that Carol left off chord symbols intentionally to focus on note reading. I may be off with that though, can't say for sure. I have the book so if there's one in particular you're looking for feedback on I'd be happy to take a look.
Well the problem I have is on the reading practice in the key of G. I don't know if They're any other key changes because they're not listed in that practice.
I do not have her volume 3, however, most songs use one key for the whole song. Chord changes yes, but, key changes are not normal at the level you are looking at.
Chords in the key of G major are; G, Am, Bm, C, D, Em, F#dim (diminished). Each key will have three major chords, three minor chords and one diminished chords.
Chords in the key of G major are; G, Am, Bm, C, D, Em, F#dim (diminished). Each key will have three major chords, three minor chords and one diminished chords.
Ah, I see what you mean. I'm going to see if I can figure it out in the next few days as a study of sorts. At a glance I can definitely tell you that there are chords outside of the key of G based on the accidentals used in some bars.
Another thought would be to post the question on Carol's forum; I'm sure she'd have some sort of feedback. Really hard to say what the intention was with leaving them out on some of the exercises.
Out of curiosity are you recording a backing track with some other chordal instrument to play along with?
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Not sure if you need to be a member to view this but I posted the question on Carol's forum. She indicated these are reading studies and stressed not overthinking but just practicing and listening.
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The above comments about Kaye's books are a clear sign of her lack of pedagogical knowledge. Her material is in many cases wanting of a logical progression. She constantly leaves the student guessing. Having been a teacher for many many years, I find each lesson jumping from introductory material to advanced practice rather than smoothly progressing from introductory material to direct application of the introductory material than to advanced application. I would never use her material in teaching.
