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How to get those 'SEXY' notes into your bass lines - lesson with Scott Devine

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Aug 22, 2006
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#1
Hey guys - This is part 2 of my geometric shapes lesson.

A couple of weeks ago I told you about a pro bass player I'd been helping out...

When we met he was SO frustrated with his bass playing, as although he was a great reader and well-rounded technician, he was finding it really hard to come up with his own bass lines, grooves and runs etc.

So, I showed him how you can apply different shapes to different sounds on the fretboard, and almost instantly he was 'cooking on gas'!

In the last lesson I posted up, I took you through ALMOST all of what I taught him. However... because I didn't want to overload you with information, I left out what I like to call the 'SEXY' or 'JUICY' notes...

I'm sure you've listened to a bass line before and suddenly there is a super 'juicy' note that pops out... and you say 'Wow, what the heck is that?'

Well... In this new lesson I'll show you exactly what those notes are, and how you can use them in your own bass lines.

Check it out... [Invalid or Expired Link Removed].

Over and out,

Scott.

PS. If you haven't checked out part 1 of this lesson you can find it by clicking HERE.
 
#5
Scott, stupid question.

I've already jumbled up this simple concept in my mind (i just naturally need to make something that should be simple, very complicated) but if the cord is a dominant 7 or a major chord, what are the shapes that i could use, other than the mixolydian scale, or the major & lydian scale?

I think i understand the minor scale 'shape' but what if the chord was a dom 7 or a 1 or 4 chord?
 
#9
Thanks Scott, your videos are great.

I liked your most important video ever - where you remind us that in order to become great, you have to take many baby-steps. I'm trying to apply this philosophy to my bass playing, I've been playing for far too long and don't believe I've got as far as I would like.
 
#12
I had seen some of your videos a while ago but didn't put any time into practicing them. One of those things I'd "get around to." Finally I've gotten around to it, and your lessons are great! Thanks so much for all you do
 
#14
Scott, why is one of your hands grey? :D

Some kind of glove, no doubt, but what kind of glove? Looks excellent, would love something like that!

Thanks for the video! I haven't got a bass (saving up for one), but videos like yours help me visualise and play air-bass! \m/

- Arvind Jayaram
 
#19
I love the way this video enables/forces you to think about how a particular "sexy" note sounds relative to a familiar context, in this case a pentatonic scale. It's one thing to know/think/play a blues scale (including the flat five) or a Dorian scale/mode (including the 2nd/9th and 6th/13th), but it's quite another to start with a pentatonic scale and think about (and hear) those "extra" notes specifically in terms of how they relate to the sound of that scale. I, for one, admit to having fallen into the trap of overlooking the sexiness potential of those notes by treating them mainly as passing tones in my hurry to reach the safety of a chord tone.

This also got me to thinking about what seems to be the larger lesson, which (I think) is that the "sexiness" of any note always depends on, and derives from its relation to, a specific context. I'm now imagining a series of prequels to this video that start by demonstrating how sexy a 5th sounds relative to a line containing only roots and octaves; how sexy a 3rd sounds relative to a root-five line; and how sexy a 7th sounds relative to a root-three-five line....
 

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