Transcript Bass Bassics - Little Kids Rock

Alex Ramirez
Email: [email protected]
Welcome Bass Players!!
 Our goals for this session are:
 Review basic bass playing techniques
 Analyze famous bass lines
 Create our own bass grooves and fills
Session Overview
 Getting Started (15 min.)
 Review of left- and right hand techniques
 Analyzing Bass Lines (20 min.)
 Scale structures
 Chord Structures
 Creating Bass Lines (25 min.)
 Rock
 Blues
 Funk
Getting Started
 Comparing the bass and guitar
 Tuning the bass
 7th fret tuning
 Right hand techniques
 Finger-style (walking)
 Pick-style (plectrum)
 Slapping/Popping : “Running with the Devil”
 Dead Notes
Analyzing Bass Lines
 “I Just Called to Say I Love You”
 Root, 5th, Octave
 “Brown-Eyed Girl”
 Root, 3rd, 5th
 “Jailhouse Rock”
 Pentatonic
 “Play that Funky Music”
 Minor Pentatonic (Root, 4th , 5th, 7th)
Creating Bass Grooves
 Deconstructing “Stand By Me”
 Rhythmic and harmonic elements
 Rock Groove
 One Note
 Triad
 Blues
 Pentatonic
 Funk
 Minor Pentatonic
Common Bass Fill Shapes
Tips for LKR Classrooms
 Keep the basses playing
 Young bassists need to build stamina!
 Support Guitar, Keyboards, Drums
 Maintain proper technique
 Left-hand (all fingers down)
 Right-hand (coordination + tone quality= success)
 Encourage study of upright bass
 Many bassists play both
 Continue development on bass guitar
Recommended Listening:
 Jaco Pasotorius (jazz): Weather Report, Modern Bass
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Guitar (video), solo work
Paul McCartney (rock): any Beatles album
John Paul Jones (rock): Led Zeppelin
Victor Wooten (jazz): Bela Fleck, solo work, videos
Steve Harris (heavy metal): Iron Maiden
Cliff Burton (heavy metal): Metallica
Jeff Berlin (jazz): solo work
Congratulations!
 You are now an awesome bass player!
 You have learned how to:
 Create your own bass lines
 Create your own grooves and fills
 Be totally funkadelic
Thank You!
 The End