Tag: walking

Bass day (1h 40m)

  • Chord tones / Walking bass
    • Major 7th chords around the cycle of 4ths in all inversions, permutation used: 1-3-7-5
    • Minor 7th chords around the cycle in root & first inversion, 1-3-7-5 permutation
    • Walking with inversions & permutations
      • A Beautiful Friendship in Eb
  • Pick
    • For Once In My Life (Jamerson, you’re crazy!)

Next time: 3 new permutations, do all minor inversions, continue with pick practice, run blues scales & pentatonics up and down the neck

Bass day (2h)

  • Walking bass lines / chord tones
    • Major 7th chords around the cycle of 4ths in all inversions, permutations used:
      • 1-3-5-7
      • 3-1-5-7
      • 5-1-3-7
      • 7-1-3-5
    • Walking with permutations & inversions
      • A Beautiful Friendship in Eb
  • Rhythmic studies
    • Riff from “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”
      • Starting on 1-e-&-a (original version)
      • Starting on 1-e-&-a (moved 1 1/16 forward)

Observations

This exercise with taking the riff and moving it in 16th notes? Dude, it’s genius. It’s mind-boggling, but once you get it right, it makes you groove like crazy! Thanks Mr. Brown, sir!

Bass day (1h 30m)

  • Walking bass lines
    • Improvisation with emphasis on chromaticisms over “Airegin” and “All The Things You Are”
  • Groove techniques
    • Rich Brown exercise: shifting one pattern in 16th notes (I only managed to do starting on 1, on e and on a)

Observations

I definitely need to do more counting practice. I’m very used to feeling things, but when it comes to rhythmically shifting whole phrases within one bar, that’s when it starts to play tricks on your brain, and what you’re “feeling” is rather what you’re most comfortable with, but often not what’s rhythmically correct. Like, you might switch the beginning of the phrase, but — without being aware of it — still play the rest the same because it feels right. But it’s not! 😄 So, counting using 16th notes is really essential here. It’s tough, but becomes extremely fun when you get it sorted!

Bass day (1h 30m)

  • Walking bass / chord tones
    • 1-* & 3-* permutations of root inversion & 1st inversion (harmonising C Mixolydian)
    • Applying over All of Me in G-
  • Piano routine sync
    • Minor blues scale “inversions” (starting on 1 and running octave up, b3 and up to b3 octave above, same from 4, from #4, etc.) — in all keys cycling in 4ths
  • Chords
    • Triads recap
    • 7th chords 1st inversion w/o 5th