Hello All
I'm a teacher at a music school with a "rock band camp" style program...groups of middle school and high school students learn to play/perform together, how to rehearse, etc. Its a great program at a great school.
One of the students who's 17 (not my private student), the bass player in a band, is pretty talented, and is currently totally into playing classical music on upright, and is really promising as a player. The band he's in learned Cissy Strut and Hottentot (scofield's agogo record), two straight up groove tunes where just layin' it down is the name of the game, not acrobatics or lead playing.
However, this student hasn't spent the time focusing on the subtleties of the bass player role in a band, such as the importance of articulation, tone, or the impact of note choice and register. After my trying to explain this he suggested I make him a CD of tunes that illustrated my points.
So the question to all you teachers and players is, which would you recommend???
Here are some that I've already chosen... (i realize that most will know who played on each track)
Chicken Grease - D'angelo (pino)
Don't stop till you get enough - MJ (louis johnson)
I keep forgettin' - michael macdonald (louis johnson)
dr. funkenstein - parliament (bootsy)
hey girl - donny hathaway (willy weeks)
palm grease - Herbie (paul jackson)
whats goin on - Marvin Gaye (jamerson)
vultures - John Mayer (pino)
king cockroach - electric band (patittuci) kind of a guilty pleasure
sour girl - stone temple pilots (robert deleo)
doctor my eyes - Jackson Browne (sklar)
Please, some more suggestions!!!
I'm a teacher at a music school with a "rock band camp" style program...groups of middle school and high school students learn to play/perform together, how to rehearse, etc. Its a great program at a great school.
One of the students who's 17 (not my private student), the bass player in a band, is pretty talented, and is currently totally into playing classical music on upright, and is really promising as a player. The band he's in learned Cissy Strut and Hottentot (scofield's agogo record), two straight up groove tunes where just layin' it down is the name of the game, not acrobatics or lead playing.
However, this student hasn't spent the time focusing on the subtleties of the bass player role in a band, such as the importance of articulation, tone, or the impact of note choice and register. After my trying to explain this he suggested I make him a CD of tunes that illustrated my points.
So the question to all you teachers and players is, which would you recommend???
Here are some that I've already chosen... (i realize that most will know who played on each track)
Chicken Grease - D'angelo (pino)
Don't stop till you get enough - MJ (louis johnson)
I keep forgettin' - michael macdonald (louis johnson)
dr. funkenstein - parliament (bootsy)
hey girl - donny hathaway (willy weeks)
palm grease - Herbie (paul jackson)
whats goin on - Marvin Gaye (jamerson)
vultures - John Mayer (pino)
king cockroach - electric band (patittuci) kind of a guilty pleasure
sour girl - stone temple pilots (robert deleo)
doctor my eyes - Jackson Browne (sklar)
Please, some more suggestions!!!
