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walking bass and soloing Jazz

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matius88

Jun 25, 2012
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Argentina
#1
Please delete the post in Technique (this thread belongs to general)
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well, im playing the bass for three years, i can play a lot of tunes, but now i want to play on jam sessions jazz, (here in argentina jazz is a "adopted" music haha, we dont have a LOT of jazz players but there is something that its interesting in it and i want to do it)
i do exercises for example, Pentatonic scales in different tempo, major scale and modes, but i think im missing something because im soloing for example in a key of c, i hit all the notes in the key but it doesnt fell so good, its like im not saying nothing.
the other thing i have is i never use a walking line book, (if someone has one please share it:P) i can play a walking bass line reading it from a sheet, but i cant figure how to improvise the walking.

if someone can tell me and advice or something that could improve my play it will be great! (soloing and walking), and if you have a certaing type of exersice of scale(major, minor,penatonic), arpeggios, or a book that has a lot of excersises to improve scales,armony and arpeggios and it worked for you,it will be great ( i dont mind if they are in pentagram).

thanks for all!

Matías.
 
#2
2 options - Carol Kaye's website and books on jazz improv are excellent.

Ed Friedland's book on jazz soloing and walking is excellent.

The other thing is that you will have to be able to read notes to use these books and play jazz at a proficient level. It sounds like you can do that maybe if you are reading from a sheet, as long you mean notes and not just chord changes.

Sounds like right now you are playing 1 scale over the changes, and that is not jazz. The sound of jazz comes from knowing every chord and every scale you can play over it, while changing the scale with each chord change. At that point if you have licks and sophisticated phrasing you can build out of those chords and scales which connects each change to the next (not just runs up and down), you will be playing jazz.

Carol Kaye's exercises will teach you multiple ways of approaching each chord in a ii-V-I and show you how to harmonize them properly. I really like her style of instruction, but it can be a little confusing if you are really new. Ed's stuff is a lot more easy to follow. If you combine both and go real slow, you will start to "get it" rather quickly.
 
#3
AngelCrusher said:
2 options - Carol Kaye's website and books on jazz improv are excellent.

Ed Friedland's book on jazz soloing and walking is excellent.

The other thing is that you will have to be able to read notes to use these books and play jazz at a proficient level. It sounds like you can do that maybe if you are reading from a sheet, as long you mean notes and not just chord changes.

Sounds like right now you are playing 1 scale over the changes, and that is not jazz. The sound of jazz comes from knowing every chord and every scale you can play over it, while changing the scale with each chord change. At that point if you have licks and sophisticated phrasing you can build out of those chords and scales which connects each change to the next (not just runs up and down), you will be playing jazz.

Carol Kaye's exercises will teach you multiple ways of approaching each chord in a ii-V-I and show you how to harmonize them properly. I really like her style of instruction, but it can be a little confusing if you are really new. Ed's stuff is a lot more easy to follow. If you combine both and go real slow, you will start to "get it" rather quickly.
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thanks a lot!!
 

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