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Double Bass Famous Bass Lines...

bkberwanger

bkberwanger

Jul 6, 2012
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I'm trying to put together a list of bass "riffs" to work on that people expect to hear for certain tunes. For example: Red Clay, Night in Tunisia, Footprints, All the Things You Are, etc...

It never fails that on a gig someone will call a tune and look at me expecting to hear "that riff"

These can be intros. or complete lines. Let me know what bass "riffs" we should know and be able to play on demand

Thanks.
 
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Michael Karn said:
The O.P. mentioned Red Clay and Equinox was also mentioned. i know they're often played in C minor (f*#kin Real Book!) but please learn them in their original and correct key of C# minor. Besides the fact that i think they sound better in those keys its just good form to learn the tunes the way the composers actually wrote them
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Can we just rename it the "Real f*#kin Sloppy, Real f*#kin Wrong, f*#kin Real Book"?
You're f*#kin Welcome!
 
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Michael Karn said:
The O.P. mentioned Red Clay and Equinox was also mentioned. i know they're often played in C minor (f*#kin Real Book!) but please learn them in their original and correct key of C# minor. Besides the fact that i think they sound better in those keys its just good form to learn the tunes the way the composers actually wrote them
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I always assumed my turntable was running fast...;>)
 
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intro to Recordame, Joe Henderson
Autumn Leaves - Miles
Equinox
Footprints
Girl from Ipanema
Four
Little sunflower
Night in tunisia
Four on six
Green dolphin street
Maiden voyage
Naima - coltrane
Oleo - bass plays melody with horn players
Stolen moments
Take five
Watermelon man - bassist makes the groove
 
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Michael Karn said:
If i could find every copy of "that" book in the world and burn them i would, and happily. That thing is the worst
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I read that opinion from time to time but I've never seen that contention supported with anything but bile. At best, they've been recitations of complaints about what the book is not or what the speaker thinks it should have been instead of critique of what it is. If anyone has some time to give a reasoned and unemotional critique of The Real Book I'd be interested in reading it.
 
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StatesideRambler said:
I read that opinion from time to time but I've never seen that contention supported with anything but bile. At best, they've been recitations of complaints about what the book is not or what the speaker thinks it should have been instead of critique of what it is. If anyone has some time to give a reasoned and unemotional critique of The Real Book I'd be interested in reading it.
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A lot of the cords in the book are wrong. Like really wrong, like not even close. But if you're lucky like me and had a professor in college who knew every song and made all of the corrections for you then no big deal. I guess the hard part for someone who doesn't know is where the actual mistakes are. If you know where the mistakes are then it's easy enough to get to an album to use your ear to figure out the right chords. So I guess it would be valuable to have a resource somewhere that lists all the mistakes, or alternatively, just use the legal one. They are pretty good
 

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