A good topic " call and responce".When you're aware of how often this is used as a great ingrediënt of jazz, you'll be using it yourself a lot, great lesson.
Excellent series. I've been mulling over the idea of doing something like this, not so much from a "how to do it" approach as "here's what I've learned so far". There's one overriding idea that I'd like to suggest. One of my biggest fears with solo (I've played many restaurant gigs in duo/trio format, but not solo) is boring myself to death. Being able to change it up is useful for both the listener and the player. I think it was Paul Bollenback who suggested (I'm paraphrasing) that, "you need to have ten ways to do any one thing". Then you have some creative lattitude and its hopefully less formulaic. You are clearly suggesting that in your videos so far. I think of these as "devices" and might include harmonized bass walkup/walkdowns, playing in intervals, bass lines that are more than 1/5, counterlines, comping bits that I've studied from learning a bit of piano, etc. One idea is that of polyphony (think Jimmy Wyble, Tuck Andress, Leni Breau, etc.), and I'm still daunted a bit by that one but I'm convinced it can be done. So short message: keep it going. Thanks.
For sure! I guess it depends if it's in time or out of time? For in time a lot of the same things apply but just at a slower tempo. Try listening to slower count basie songs and stealing the rhythms from those! Or transcribe some Joe Pass at slower tempos!
@@NathanBortonMusic Cool, I guess I’m talking about ballad playing in general, if you could do a future video lesson on it. It seems to be an aspect that a lot of people neglect, using space, lyricism, expressing the mood of a tune. It’s been said, maybe by Jimmy Raney, that ballads are what separate the artists from the BS artists. I think there’s something to that. Wes, Grant Green, Kenny Burrel, Pat Martino-all master ballad players. Anyway, thanks for all you do Nathan.
That would be hard! I would try and not always play the r-5 bass motion. Are there spots where the melody breaks where you can add possibly some chords that imply a 2 feel or actually just play the 2 feel bass line? Me personally I won't try to do it all at once. I suppose for an exercise it could be cool, but for a musical performance it might be to much. Just my thoughts!
@@NathanBortonMusic you should do more videos on connecting chords like Joe Pass. I find there’s way to many jazz channels that focus in vocabulary, but not chordal vocabulary. Again watching Joe Pass move up and down the neck endlessly yet he used very common drop chords
