Playing Basslines on Piano - Six Common Mistakes 

jeremy i love how you accept the crazyness and dynamite properties of being a business man but still keeping it chill.

Hey Jeremy, it was lovely it meet you for a minute and hear your dynamic performance at the Rex in Toronto yesterday! Great tips here. A thought I’d like to maybe add on from a bassist’s perspective is that while the proper way to treat 2 and 4 (or the ‘hump in the beat’) can be pretty nebulous to talk about, the best way I’ve seen it put is that even in a bassline intended to be entirely legato, 2 and 4 are the ‘most’ legato. The emphasis isn’t in terms of volume but more that beat 2 is played with the intention of leading to beat 3 which is intended as more of a landing point. Same with 4 and 1. It’s part of why strong note choice can give the impression of swinging harder. Now I know that’s an assertion that’s pretty hard to prove but where I believe you can hear it is in where bassists on records leave clear air between notes or put a staccato beat as ornamentation. Especially in earlier recordings before bass gear got easier to make clear strong legato on. It’s almost never interrupting 2 to 3 or 4 to 1, and is instead setting those beats up to contrast even more by being more legato. I think about Israel Crosby or Ray Brown like you mentioned when I think of this. Pardon the rambling, but this stuff gets my brain going! haha

DYNAMITE! I've been playing piano and bass for over 50 years and I love the way you broke it all down so nicely!! Bravo!!

Thanks! Enjoying the journey here, like Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles, putting in the: “Work Work Work Work WORK!”

This was a great, dynamic lesson. Thank you, Jeremy!

Great idea: the exercise refering to coordination with different rhythm in the right hand!

Great video. Numbers 5 and 6, in particular, demonstrate dynamic baselines.

Thanks as usual! Great kind of heads-up - things to think about for me (almost a beginning course for my students)! I have a gig this weekend with a vibes player and a singer (no bass or drums) so i'll try to be a dynamo with my L.H. bass!

I always learn something useful from this channel - it is so dynamic.

Fantastic. Your're jazz piano books are dynamite!

Wonderful master class Jeremy! Thank you!!!!

Great stuff, the range/register aspect is crucial. And not talked about enough.

I forgot to pay even a little bit of attention to the bass line in your example, my jaw was dropped at your solo 😮

Jeremy were you just in Toronto yesterday? I was running by the Rex and almost got whiplash doing a double take by the window haha. I was like “Was that Jeremy?” Too bad I couldn’t catch the show inside, but you looked like you were having a blast!

Great tips dynamo!

Great content & examples..TY!

Dynamite ideas from the master!

We have a dynamite dynasty of dynamic bass players from which to learn

Thanks Jeremy, you're a dynamo!

Left hand bass, right hand chords: the Dynamic Duo.

Hello jeremy Dynamite thanx for your content i'm guitarist i had never consider bassline realy essentiel for guitarist but maybe im wrong?

That intro made me happier than I was at the moment haha

Where can we learn this? haha, you have a video?

This video is dynamite 🧨

You're Bebop improv is dyn-o-mite.

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Jeremy, would you be interested in feedback on your books? (Feel free to say no!)

Just do whatever Dave McKenna does 😊

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step 1, sober up xD