Genre specific techniques and stuff

[Paul New]

If anyone is interested, Dario Deidda has a fairly new series of courses on YouJazz that focus on electric bass technique exclusively as a jazz instrument. If you don't know Dario, he started on double bass in classical education, but now is very much in demand as an electric bassist in jazz, touring most recently with Kurt Rosenwinkel.

I'm like a lot of people in that I've adapted, when I play it in jazz, double bass technique to the electric, even using Simadl fingering primarily. They are very different instruments though.

I can't really review the course, because I've barely started it. Dario speaks only italian, but all text can be read in english, and the videos are subtitled.

 

[Paul New]

This guy plays beaucoup double bass, but opted to play electric in this instance. Maybe his left shoulder was sore or something?

 

[Paul New]

Swallow does OK.

 

[dreamadream99]

Jazz bass consists of walking bass, pedaling, and soloing. Each has a different technique.

Walking alone would constitute a full course, since it relies on music theory, note choice, and math.

Pedaling is choosing a note (usually the V or the I) that can be played throughout the chord changes during the last eight bars of the last chorus.

And soloing, in addition to improvisational skills, requires a thorough understanding of how jazz rhythms and melodies are interpreted. The only real way to do that is to spend a decade listening to jazz, or five years with a jazz instructor.

 

[Paul New]

Jazz bass consists of walking bass, pedaling, and soloing. Each has a different technique.

Walking alone would constitute a full course, since it relies on music theory, note choice, and math.

Pedaling is choosing a note (usually the V or the I) that can be played throughout the chord changes during the last eight bars of the last chorus.

And soloing, in addition to improvisational skills, requires a thorough understanding of how jazz rhythms and melodies are interpreted. The only real way to do that is to spend a decade listening to jazz, or five years with a jazz instructor.

no kidding??

 

[dreamadream99]

no kidding??

Sorry. I thought you were asking what the genre specific techniques were. I see now that you weren’t asking a question, but were instead espousing your own observations. My mistake.

 

[Paul New]

Sorry. I thought you were asking what the genre specific techniques were. I see now that you weren’t asking a question, but were instead espousing your own observations. My mistake.

No, i wasn't asking for a mini-course on constructing bass lines in two or four. Those are arts that I continue to study after many decades.

The thread was misnamed, for sure, but what I'm interested in is how well the electric bass can perform a function in "straight-ahead" jazz, rather than in the funk/fusion pigeon holes we normally stick it in. I hear it as another flavor of bass, just like the Hammond organ produces it's own flavor.

Here's a guy doing it.



Not jazz, but informed by jazz?



who needs a guitar?