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Jazz standards for bass
- Thread starter chunami
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This is the first guy who comes to mind for me.
Robert Sput Searight - DRUMMERWORLD
No one could convince me this guy does not have all of it.
Yeah I know about Sput. He's one of the guys who played with Badu and Roy Hargrove. Michael League was in that bunch too and I already mentioned him in a previous post having played with Roy.
All the major influences coming from a single spot. Basically just a jazz messenger vibe and it's the only one that I know of that was current.
I guess snarky puppy kind of has that mentoring vibe, where you have different people rotating in and out. But everybody in that band is hyper educated and sometimes I just don't feel what they're doing.
Who else you got?
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Not playing. If you can't look beyond the fact that Sput can also play really well and get the heart and feel in what he does, I have nothing else to add. We're just not going to agree no matter who I might name. Have a nice day.
LOL maybe you're just misreading what I said. Because I have no idea what you're talking about with that comment.
I already know Sput is great. His playing is on genius level you dig? Everybody that came out of that Houston posse that dealt with Hargrove are the people making it happen. Anyway, you have your own day as well.
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Not really. Have a great day is code for "I'm done." I have nothing against SpinDoctor, I just can see by his response that we won't agree on any of this, so why drag it out? Not agreeing is all really kinda fine with me
Not really. Have a great day is code for "I'm done." I have nothing against SpinDoctor, I just can see by his response that we won't agree on any of this. That's all really kinda fine with me
Dude what point are you missing? I absolutely agree with you okay? Is that clear enough. This is getting stupid so yeah I'm done
the only way to settle this is with a bass-off, Davie504 style 
well to be honest I have no idea what that was all about so I'm perfectly okay with just letting him think whateverthe only way to settle this is with a bass-off, Davie504 style
LOL, I was gonna add that I'm sure SD and I can both make music that we like, so not agreeing with someone on the internet is not going to ruin my day and I hope it doesn't ruin his, either. But I'm not going up against Davie504the only way to settle this is with a bass-off, Davie504 style
LOL, I was gonna add that I'm sure SD and I can both make music that we like, so not agreeing with someone on the internet is not going to ruin my day and I hope it doesn't ruin his, either. But I'm not going up against Davie504
I guess you took offense at my "who else you got" comment , but I was literally simply asking who else did you know about who is of that caliber. Because I already know about him. That's it. If that's not what caused your consternation then I don't know what else it could have been.
Sput is great. We both know this, okay? Geeze...
Nope, I didn't take offense at that. It's that you guilted him by association. I know where he comes from, I know who he's played with. But I don't put him in that same category because there's something I see in his work that is more than the sum of its technical parts. Otherwise, don't you think that maybe Michael League would be a more obvious name?
This is why I don't want to discuss it, because there's something I think I see there that other people won't say they see, and if I press on this it means someone's right and someone's wrong. And how do you prove something is there when it's just an impression you have of something being greater than the sum of its parts? You really can't.
Anyone else I might name here would get the same treatment. Oh, went to so-and-so school, played with this technically brilliant band, etc. We either see the same things or we don't, and we don't, and that's perfectly fine.
Anyway, sorry if I misunderstood your point. Seemed like you were saying with some dismissal that he comes from a technically heavy place, which is true. If I had that wrong, my apologies.
No worries. I went back and re-read what you wrote and saw that I was mistaken.
To answer your question, I wish I could come up with a long list of people like that. But by definition they're pretty rare.
This was the OP: "So I know absolutely know nothing about jazz. can someone please educate me and tell me where to get started 
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This was the thread: IM GUNNA TELL YOU EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT MUZIK THEERY LOOK AT ME REEEEEEEEE also weird argument about a dude who works a lot.
You want to discourage someone from learning a style of music? This is how you do it.
"This was the thread: IM GUNNA TELL YOU EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT MUZIK THEERY LOOK AT ME REEEEEEEEE also weird argument about a dude who works a lot.
You want to discourage someone from learning a style of music? This is how you do it.
Best way to start is by listening to as much jazz as possible. And identify and get familiar with some jazz standards. There's several lists available. This is a good place to find one list of standards with play along tracks and some helpful guidance. The site also has a podcast worth checking out.
You'll also want to become familiar with and get a handle on the most common jazz chord progressions and apply your knowledge of music theory to analyzing what's going on with them and why they work. Unlike some other music genres, jazz requires a certain level of intellectual involvement when you're first learning to play it. Jazz is more like a language than anything else. It has a "vocabulary" and "grammar" you'll need to learn in order to play it. It takes some commitment and effort to acquire a basic competence in it. And even more dedication in order to play it well. But if you're up for the challenge, it's well worth it.
Then there's the guild aspect to jazz...
Eventually, after you acquire some basic competence you'll enter your local jazz scene(if your locale is lucky enough to have it's own jazz scene) and (hopefully) you'll be invited to sit in with the more experienced cats. And that's where your real jazz education will begin.
This famous scene from That Thing You Do is how it actually works more often than not. Maybe you won't run into an acknowledged jazz great like the guy in this Hollywood fantasy portrays. But you will run into knowledgeable players who are often willing to take a newcomer under their wing.
But that'll come later. Right now your first task is to listen a lot, learn some standards, and get the rudiments down cold.
Luck!
You'll also want to become familiar with and get a handle on the most common jazz chord progressions and apply your knowledge of music theory to analyzing what's going on with them and why they work. Unlike some other music genres, jazz requires a certain level of intellectual involvement when you're first learning to play it. Jazz is more like a language than anything else. It has a "vocabulary" and "grammar" you'll need to learn in order to play it. It takes some commitment and effort to acquire a basic competence in it. And even more dedication in order to play it well. But if you're up for the challenge, it's well worth it.
Then there's the guild aspect to jazz...
Eventually, after you acquire some basic competence you'll enter your local jazz scene(if your locale is lucky enough to have it's own jazz scene) and (hopefully) you'll be invited to sit in with the more experienced cats. And that's where your real jazz education will begin.
This famous scene from That Thing You Do is how it actually works more often than not. Maybe you won't run into an acknowledged jazz great like the guy in this Hollywood fantasy portrays. But you will run into knowledgeable players who are often willing to take a newcomer under their wing.
But that'll come later. Right now your first task is to listen a lot, learn some standards, and get the rudiments down cold.
Luck!
