Tag: walking

Bass day (1h 30m)

  • Chord tones
    • Harmonising Dorian scale with 7th chords — all inversions, playing to the click, no pauses
      • D Dorian
      • A Dorian
      • E Dorian
    • II — V — I’s
      • In the keys of C, F, Bb & Eb, all inversions
  • Walking bass lines
    • Dominant 2-octave bass line around the cycle of 4ths
    • Improvisation over the same chord progression, emphasising the b7ths & b6ths

Observations

Finally getting better at 2-octave dominant scales! This time played with almost no mistakes.

Bass day (1h 20m)

  • Chord tones
    • Harmonising Dorian scale with 7th chords — all inversions, playing to the click, with pauses between chords
      • D Dorian
      • A Dorian
      • E Dorian
  • Walking bass lines
    • II — V — I shapes recap (Scott’s Jazz Survival course)
    • Improv over Autumn Leaves in G-
    • Dominant 2-octave bass line around the cycle of 4ths

Bass day (1h 30m)

  • Chord tones (Phil Mann)
    • Harmonising the major scale with 7th chords — all inversions, tried different positions on the fretboard C major (45m)
  • Walking bass lines — 45m
    • Jazz standards in Latin rhythms (Cha cha cha + The Preacher by Horace Silver)
    • 2-octave dominant walking bass line (b7 ascending, b7 & b6 descending) round the cycle of 4ths
    • Soloing practice over blues progession (mostly trying to use b7ths a and b6ths and avoid pentatonic patterns)

Observations

Chord formulas are wonderful! It’s so much easier to quickly see and play any inversion anywhere on the neck with any fingering when you know that it’s, for example, m3 + M3 + m2 (maj7 chord in 2nd inversion) and not root… third… fifth… 7th… Thanks Mr. Mann!

Bass day (2h 10m)

  • Chord tones (Phil Mann)
    • All triads / all inversions round the cycle — 20m
    • All 7th chords / all inversions round the cycle — 20m
    • Harmonising the major scale with 7th chords — root inversions (20m)
  • Walking bass lines (Scott Devine) — 30m
    • Improvised bass line over jazz standard (The Preacher by Horace Silver)
    • Soloing over (slightly modified) 12-bar blues progression trying enclosures and chromatic passing tones
  • RealLifeReading™ — LOL — just picking up a random sheet with a bass transcription for a popular / jazz song and trying to fluently play and / or learn as much as possible within 30 minutes’ time. I think it’s a bit closer to the real life sight reading situations than endlessly going over contrabass etudes. Hence the name