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Tim Lefebvre's bass concepts #6

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Interesting video. I've never really spent much time thinking about it but I've always done this sort of noodling as well and it kind of became my foundation for playing outside in the context of jazz. I realize I'm wrong but I always sort of assumed everyone could play this way lol. It wasn't until I was in music school that I met people who absolutely could not just play without any sort of harmonic or rhythmic context.

The stuff he's showing also comes in handy for playing angular lines like you find in math rock and post-punk. It really just comes down to freely exploring the instrument.
 
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ole Jason said:
I realize I'm wrong but I always sort of assumed everyone could play this way lol. It wasn't until I was in music school that I met people who absolutely could not just play without any sort of harmonic or rhythmic context.
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I’m one of them, broken by jazz university. Soloing over complex progressions is much easier for me than this kind of atonal improvisation or walking in “no changes” free jazz. Definitely will spend some time with these concepts - very useful stuff!
 
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"play random notes, try to sound like jazz or bebop"
I suppose, the more versed one is in bebop vocabulary the more like atonal bebop it will sound.
I might yield nice discoveries, if only to discover what habits you fall into in pursuit of 'atonal'

personally I like my improv more directed towards an actual progression or tonality,
I think it sounds better and will be more applicable to other music.
 
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