How to Use Ray Brown Techniques in Your Bass Lines - Part 1 

When you first started this channel I thought, “boy, that name sounds familiar”, then I saw the Ray Brown book on the music stand 😂

I love these kinds of videos where idioms from the greats are revealed. Very useful to take these small bits and run them repeatedly through all keys with the hope that these ideas become part of my vocabulary

Many Thanks !!! Buying now your book.

Great work Matt … your playing and teaching “top shelf”… Love your RB Transcription book!! Thank you for that gift!!!

I have the Ray Brown transcription book and the explanation of painting in 10ths helps so much. When I think of “Have You Met Miss Brown”, I often mistake that sound as the melody when it’s just this.

I had no idea you wrote my Ray Brown book until just now!😂 Thanks, these videos and play alongs have been very helpful.

Great lesson as always. Interesting examples. The spinning wheels is so cool - so simple but so effective.

excellent lesson and great teacher! Is really helpfull to have this kind of videos algongside my classes to complement my learning, thank you!

muy bueno

Thanks much Matt! This was exactly what I was looking for!

loving this channel!

😊 yo uso el programa de band in a box y real band

Totally makes sense to rev on the 5th since there is a pull to the tonic.

Just found you channel and I love it! Great style and content. I’ve been a fan of Ray’s for over 40 years.

Thank you sir! Keep up the great work!

Great lesson!

yeah, awesome

Nice thanks alot

Awesome channel; thanks

Right on

Great lesson. Quite a bit to digest but am already trying to figure out ways to incorporate these ideas - (including how they might make their way into some of the hobby band's rock covers). Also finding a much-higher-than-usual quality of instruction in the comments. Bravo!

Thank you, really appreciate your work great teaching. I transcribed Ray Brown’s CJam blues version with Oscar Peterson. The idea he used in that piece was a Cmaj scale ascendent and descendent played diatonic and in broken third (something that Jaco Pastorius did a lot too), and some chromatic approach. Really interesting stuff.

What kind of strings do you have

❤ hi am Raúl Rico bass desde México city estudie jazz en México y berkee tome cursos y también tome cursos de armonía dick grove yo tengo un libro de ray Brown de tecnica y además tengo un libro con varias formas de tocar caminando de jazz con diferentes bajista del jazz como lo es paul chambers, ron carter

I have a question: When I was studying arranging at Berklee school of music (online) the teacher criticized me because I did not use the root of the chord on the first beat of the bar , I sometimes started the baseline on the third or fifth of the chord. We had a discussion and I said : I do not believe Bassplayers always start on the root of the chord and he said : Yes they do! Now I am looking at your basslines and I have looked at other teachers basslines and I must conclude that Berklee school of music was wrong, you start on Fitfths and thirds too in fact in bar two of the "painting in tenths" bassline you start on the D , the ninth of the chord. Was the teacher at Berklee really wrong or am I just mistaken. By the way I am not a bassist I play the guitar but as you know Guitarist can play walking bass lines too they just don't sound so low! I would appreciate it if you or someone else could enlighten me about this. THANKS!