"Scale tones" is too systematic for me. Just random notes and constant modulations please! (Also, someone should write something/solo over that first 'bad' bassline. Could be fun.)
The guys who have the weirdest look on their faces while they play are usually the guys who can come up with the most beautiful noise a human can possibly hear
because they are fully concentrating on the music and nothing else. every time i realise that i'm making a weird face while practicing, i'm happy because it means that i'm in the zone and i'm just focussed on practice.
That's one of the best guides for walking bass I've heard in my 45 years of experience - keep it linear and use patterns for non-linear stuff. Thank you maestro McBride!❤❤❤🎵🎶☕️☕️☕️☕️
Awesome, love it. But whoever did the text subtitles, it's "bassline" not "baseline." Bassline as in bass. This is music, not baseball! 😅 Sorry to be the grammar police !
A good bassist is usually the most intellectual person in the group as well as the best musically informed. Also, the most underrated one by any audience.
It's truly a pleasure listening to the tone coming from that instrument while I am being taught at the same time. You have a mastered an art sir, and I thank you for sharing.
Christian McBride continuing to be one of the wisest and best bass players around, that interview he did with MonoNeon was one of the best i’ve ever seen
I hate shorts, but this one at least led me to a really solid channel. I'm a percussionist (doop word for drummer who can play piano and harp) but this... great.
Also one "rule" you are either intuitively or consciously following most of the time, is that linear/joint movement after a jump go in the opposite direction from the jump! If you jump upward you walk downward and inversely.
When listening to jazz I always listen first to what's going on with the bass. A good bass line holds everything together and makes it all fall into place in the most sensical of ways. Bass players seem to have the most situational awareness in an ensemble.
outstanding. step together so the baseline is connected and the move together and keep the bass line connected. though remember linear means very very similar incremental in mathematics. exponential is the squared cubed gains mathematical functions get larger from. Example - stairs in a house are linear. Plankton blooming in a lake or ocean are exponential. Cell growth of a growing body are exponential. excellent video dude.
Great tips. Despite being very different from baroque/gallant classical music, these rules for voice leading in jazz bass are still very much the same (e.g. linearity is the best, and if you do large jumps, it should be followed by stepwise motion in the opposite direction). Unless outlining triads lol. Very cool to see these principles applied in a completely different context and still work. It really seems like smooth voice leading is one of the few universalities our ears like in music
i remember a saying that one of the main keys to playing bass is to also just make sure you have the root notes on beat one at least 80% of the time. or really just outlining the chord if you can break it up and use inversions and extensions, cool, but a lot of people only use the bass as to be able to know where they are in the form
Nice playing - sounds a bit like Phillip Bowler. Dorthan's walk (RRK) is my favorite jazz tune for life - folks, go listen to it. The song is different, same style though.
'And that's why jazz bassline are boring and why every jazz musician coming from any jazz school sound the same and will never have a carreer' _Tony Allen in masterclass_
These guidelines don't stop with jazz; they are applicable to much of the classical music of the Baroque, e.g., a large selection of Bach cantata movements and chorale preludes.
While Christian McBride is a phenomenal player, this is one of the reasons all jazz sounds alike these days. It's amazing to me how a musical genre founded in improvisation has become so prescriptive
