Many years ago when I was starting out on bass, one of the areas that I routinely shied away from was jazz studies and jazz improvisation. The topic to me seemed so massive and so daunting and so musically rigorous that I did as much as I could to back away from it. Eventually, after getting a pretty good handle on as many other aspects of bass as I could get my hands on, I … [Read more...] about Learn How to Make Your Walking Basslines Smooth and Flowing
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Learning to Play Jazz? Why You Should Start Learning Chords Before Scales
When bass players learn beginn learning music, they often turn to scales first. Many bass players that I've seen put a disproportionate amount of energy on learning the scales and playing the scales and simultaneously using these scale routines to limit their playing. They begin to only think in terms of linear associations of notes. For bass players, this is not a … [Read more...] about Learning to Play Jazz? Why You Should Start Learning Chords Before Scales