don't worry about speed, learning to read is more based on accuracy than speed. that will come naturally with practice, do don't sweat over going past two more bpm. play the etudes until you reach your top confort zone and then move to the next one
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Pattitucci Etude Book Experiences
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Still working through these Etudes, I've been playing "Db Mixolydian Scale" and "Gb Mixolydian Scale" (lots of flats) but I'm almost ready to move onto the next few. I have 17? more Etudes to play through still, to get through all 60. Woo Hoo!
Boy do I ever screw up more when I try to record, but here's a few more attempts of these great Etudes.
Boy do I ever screw up more when I try to record, but here's a few more attempts of these great Etudes.
That first one gives me Metallica vibes for some reason. I think I may hunt down this book as a means to improve my reading!
Pulled out the A-flat melodic-minor page today, I'll start on it later. That's 49 Etudes down out of 60, 11 more to go.
I never thought I'd finish these when I started, but slowly plugging away and some time and now I'm confident I'll work through all of them.
I'll be going back and reviewing these for a long time to come also, same for the Jeff Berlin Etudes.
I found these Etudes online for free and only paid to have them printed out at the library, and they've been great reading practice with some of the notes and patterns rather tricky for me, I feel working through these has improved my reading quite a bit.
May try to record a few more of these Etudes for my own account but there's little interest in them, short simple catchy stuff is what people want to hear nowadays. Pocket and groove not Melodic Etudes.
Anyways, JP, I salute you!
I never thought I'd finish these when I started, but slowly plugging away and some time and now I'm confident I'll work through all of them.
I'll be going back and reviewing these for a long time to come also, same for the Jeff Berlin Etudes.
I found these Etudes online for free and only paid to have them printed out at the library, and they've been great reading practice with some of the notes and patterns rather tricky for me, I feel working through these has improved my reading quite a bit.
May try to record a few more of these Etudes for my own account but there's little interest in them, short simple catchy stuff is what people want to hear nowadays. Pocket and groove not Melodic Etudes.
Anyways, JP, I salute you!
This is AMAZING!!! Kudos to you @FearNoEvil65. Please do keep us updated on your progress with these and the Berlin etude series. I know that I have really enjoyed watching your videos and am sure others likely have as well.
I've started on the G# Locrian Etude and C# Locrian. 6 more Etudes after these and I'll have read the entire 60 Etudes.
Probably take me 6 more weeks as I move slow and hope to record some of these final Etudes.
I'll be back to some Bach Cello Suites, more Berlin Etudes and I have other stuff also afterwards.
I do plan on coming back to the Patitucci Etudes and eventually recording the ones in the 12 keys, that I didn't record already.
Keep at it.
Probably take me 6 more weeks as I move slow and hope to record some of these final Etudes.
I'll be back to some Bach Cello Suites, more Berlin Etudes and I have other stuff also afterwards.
I do plan on coming back to the Patitucci Etudes and eventually recording the ones in the 12 keys, that I didn't record already.
Keep at it.
The First Etude, C Major. I guess we've all played this one.
I recorded this when I started the lessons. I cut a couple of notes off but it is what it is.
I recorded this when I started the lessons. I cut a couple of notes off but it is what it is.
Great thread, I keep coming back over the years to this book, Ray Brown’s Bass Method, and Rufus Reid’s The Evolving Bassist. This Patitucci book is so good for building a solid understanding of how basic musical components can be turned into compelling musical statements! I just picked up JP’s Walking Bass and Modern Jazz Bass Exercises & Etudes books as well.
For any folks reading who might say “Well, I don’t play jazz” - this stuff is applicable to any and all styles you could want to play.
For any folks reading who might say “Well, I don’t play jazz” - this stuff is applicable to any and all styles you could want to play.
Dumb Q, probably, but is this Bass Exercises & Études a different one to the book that was mentioned at the start of the thread?
Not a dumb question at all!
The OP was posting about JP's "60 Melodic Etudes" book published in 2025, the Modern Jazz Bass Exercises & Etudes book was published in 2025.
The OP was posting about JP's "60 Melodic Etudes" book published in 2025, the Modern Jazz Bass Exercises & Etudes book was published in 2025.
