How To Play 'So What' On The Bass Guitar (by Miles Davis)

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In this bass guitar lesson, James teach you how to play the popular " So What " by Miles Davis. You'll learn useful walking bass and bass line concepts.
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@lawrencebogar6136 4 месяца назад

As A Jazz player, this lesson is what it's all about. Great Job James.

@peterjonstefan2926 7 месяцев назад

you gave the best review/bass breakdown of this song i've seen yet.

@hassaniusirisbinmikaeel6544 4 года назад

beautifully played rendition of the "So What" classic. Upgraded my rendition to a new level. The variation of bass motives over the dorian scale after the opening melody gave the overall line so much depth and the triplets added near the conclusion to the piece gave the line such an original feel maintaining that jumpy swing so characteristic. Nicely played and articulated so professionally

@ebassguitar 4 года назад

Thank you! I appreciate that :-)

@Bass.Player 4 года назад

Nice lesson! Been playing this style for years, I love Jazz/blues and swing.

@ebassguitar Год назад

Me too! Thanks! Glad you like the lesson! Cheers!

@SeniorTorro 6 месяцев назад

Thank you very much for the free pdf

@gerardclaude1652 4 года назад

Thank you so much for this lesson.

@ebassguitar 4 года назад

My pleasure Gerard

@brynyowannatkinson2915 Год назад

Wow...what a lesson James. Very nicely played. Always wanted to play this...going to grab your pdf and have a go. Thank you

@ebassguitar Год назад

Go for it Bryn! Enjoy!

@charlieburns1385 6 месяцев назад

Awesome James 👍🎶

@anyazzzzz 4 года назад

this is something I can understand, thank you.

@ebassguitar 4 года назад

Cheers, glad you like it

@aparthgeny4278 4 года назад

You got a new subscriber! Thanks for all explanation, that really helped me about walking lines and modes, thank you!

@ebassguitar Год назад

Glad you learn something useful from the video! Thank you for subscribing! Stay tuned for more videos!

@AcerTheEraser 5 месяцев назад

Thank you

@gusvelasquez5569 4 года назад

Really nice job my friend Way to break things down Good Stuff Cheers

@ebassguitar 4 года назад

Thanks Gus!

@alessandromondelli5793 3 года назад

Thanks for the lesson very useful and clear

@ebassguitar 3 года назад

My pleasure cheers James

@javiermonteromolera 2 года назад

Thanks a lot for your awesome help

@ebassguitar 2 года назад

Happy to have helped you out!

@jazzman1954 4 года назад

Been playing this for years as a keen amateur. I can tell you that this ‘simple’ tune is dead hard to play without getting lost. Especially when soloing. One second of lost concentration and your done. Thanks for this mate.

@ebassguitar 4 года назад

Totally man... it’s much harder than it looks!

@powerforward1955 2 года назад

You are so right. I recently began learning “So What”...I’ve really been focusing on the intonation for the beginning bass melody...for some reason my fingers want to hesitate at a certain section. ...once the walking line begins, my ear generally keeps me on track but one slip-up and it’s done! Great tune...thanks for the tutorial.

@SamuelWebster Год назад

Good to see you talk about walking in Dorian. I see a lot of people teach this tune as a Dm scale over the Dm7 (which is not really a Dm7 but more like a Dm7+11+13)

@usomedicinal 3 года назад

Great lesson!!! Thx

@ebassguitar Год назад

Glad you like it! Cheers!

@mingoli52 9 месяцев назад

very good.

@philreid984 4 месяца назад

The eyebrows, gotta luv 'em. Thank you for this break down on this deceptively simple but hard song 👍

@michael_caz_nyc 2 года назад

Nice job with this. Enjoyed your lesson. I love Miles & Coltrane, but I am new-to-Bass, (so I need help) - this was really great. oNe LovE from NYC

@ebassguitar Год назад

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@crimfan 2 года назад

Modal jazz seems easy but it's not. The chords don't tell you what to do. Super easy to get lost. The only thing I would add is what happened in the later playing... throw in triplets as punctuation or some implied ii-V just to give harmonic punctuation. Another trick I used a lot to keep myself and the band on track was to shift octaves in the last 8 bars. That way the 32 bar form gets better outlined. The drummer should go with you!

@ebassguitar Год назад

Great share! Cheers!

@taroncarterpollard7119 Год назад

Thank you for this lesson. I just joined a jazz band and I’m a freshman in high school, learning how to play bass and we are playing this song and I had no idea how simple it was to walk the bass. Your a badass bassist

@ebassguitar Год назад

Thanks man… a lot of music is simple when it’s broken down! Good luck man!

@pavlekocbek 6 месяцев назад

yes, good luck, and of course I've been saying this to anyone. Recruiting girls and women for my punk band, I promise this to anyone, I can make you a star drummer, or guitarist in two months. Sid Vicious did it, totally changed the way bass was played, that's a virtuoso. In two months. But I also say the following, that it is really simple to get to 80% being a master, two months, but for that last 20% one usually needs 15 years, ten of them for the last 5% Think of it. And let me tell you something else, too. After 25 years, about 5 years ago, I really started to get it to the deepest of levels, far beyond 100% and I can't describe how my love for bass, guitars in general and music exploded in me, boiled my blood, shoot my livers through the top of my pot upstairs. I play for 9 to 15 hours a day, witch was totally unimaginable to me my whole life. I heard Hendrix did it, I thought he was insane, Now I get it. I think it's simply because I'm old now. And you know what, being old is cool. I thought it will suck. It doesn't. Old is bloody gold

@cubbyjo Год назад

Finally, someone who gets the opening right.

@ebassguitar Год назад

Thank you Dean!

@bustabass9025 3 года назад

Good beginner's take on this Miles Davis classic. Paul Chambers' bass line is a lot more detailed. The transcription for this tune clearly identifies his driving force from the first pickup note, and walking all the way to his mesmerizing fade out. This is a good start. Hopefully listening to the original will give bassists an appreciation for what Paul Chambers brought to the music and how he influenced jazz during its greatest period.

@ebassguitar 3 года назад

Absolutely... this is just the beginning of the wonderful paul chambers journey! What a player...

@powerforward1955 2 года назад

Busta Bass, I agree. This is a good start. I realize I’m considered Old Skool (my personal spelling), but listening to Chambers to better understand his music, the nuances and his nearly perfection, might give some a better appreciation for Chambers and thereby affect playing his music. ...doing that with the music of Jamerson, Palladino, Caron and others I found myself listening for a lot more than just which notes to play; but rather the approaches, tone, dynamics, etc. Thanks for lesson ebassguitar and stay on the bass journey. Peace to all.

@KaltOhm 3 года назад

One thing you might want to mention is that the intro has a pick up bar at the beginning. So you start counting, the melody begins on the “and” of the first beat of the pick up bar, and the first A section begins when you hit the D right before the bands goes “baah bap”, if that makes any sense 😄. The bass call is in the even numbered bars (0 or picku up, 2, etc) and the “baah bap” responses fall in the odd numbered ones(1st, 3rd, etc). Hope that helps to better count it in your head.

@ebassguitar 3 года назад

Yeah good point - great share

@lagiapostolou3242 5 месяцев назад

hi james can i get the pdf for this lesson please

@DEMcouver 8 месяцев назад

I think you can certainly think of it as being Dorian or even Minor Pentatonic, but I think there’s a lot to be said for Aolean, as well. I think a lot of the chromaticism is suggestive of both. I think it’s all pretty interchangeable and if the notes happen to clash occasionally, you can just call them blue notes.

@boikhutsoponatshego9941 2 года назад

Dope.

@ebassguitar Год назад

Cheers!

@garyyoung7187 Год назад

hi James great lesson thank you however I don't have a computer just phone is there maybe another way I can get this lesson tab tia

@ebassguitar Год назад

It’ll work fine. Click the link in the description and we’ll email it to you…

@tjfettig Год назад

Great video, tried to get the pdf three times (NO LUCK) I find the score somewhere. Suggest you fix the issue🤔

@ebassguitar Год назад

Email support@ebassguitar.com and the team will sort it out for you :-)

@akshaysarbhukan6701 4 года назад

Sir, I just bought a bass. Can you please suggest me from when should I start to develop a good bass playing technique?

@ebassguitar 4 года назад

Best time to start developing a good technique is right now!

@akshaysarbhukan6701 4 года назад

@@ebassguitar sorry, I meant to say how should I start, what should be the focus as a beginner.

@ebassguitar 4 года назад

The focus should to get playing right away... there’s a beginners course over at ebassguitar inside the bass lab plus which will do just that!

@LoveGr00ve 4 года назад

The most important thing is to have fun and enjoy whatever you are playing. You can start playing with a pick, with your fingers, you can practise palm mute, or slap - it doesn't matter at all as long as you are enjoying the process.

@XCLent0 Год назад

@11:32

@rudepen 4 года назад

Your website is not working. Plz check

@ebassguitar 4 года назад

Should be fine now!

@hotheatsneakers5848 3 года назад

He literally showed me how to do everything EXCEPT PLAY THE DAMN HOOK

@ebassguitar 3 года назад

I think I explained the hook is most often played by other instruments... so I focused on the most important role for the bass player nailing the form and creating the walking bass line. No point in being able to play the hook if one can’t play the form properly!

@jazzman1954 2 года назад

The ‘Hook’ is basically two notes. Work it out for yourself sunbeam.

@captainbrianwilkinson7723 5 месяцев назад

I would just say that the "reply" is two notes the piano always played 2 note on the reply as we have for xx years your intimating theres one note, (please correct me if your not :-) )great vid though, although I play lower & softer for that "feel" best regards, heres a reference re the reply ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LA1-N_N_YFo.html