So dope. C. McBride's playing on upright gave all upright players a new hope to what is possible. All the while the bottom remains intact and un-compromised.
I was searching for a video of finger technique to learn to play faster, to be actually able to execute more ideas, and I got this"Just take your fingers and go like that". Wow! it is much more simple then I would have ever thought:-) .... it is 5 min later...I tried it, and it seems really simple as that. My slowness was pretty much in the thinking that I do something "more" then just "going like that" with my fingers. The brain is learning by itself to move the fingers as needed now, no manual or a lesson needed. Many mistakes happen. I is just the beginning, but it is like a crystalization, and with a little trust and lot of practice the fingers will act automaticaly without a thought and just execute the idea. It will be like driving a car, when you know it.
That’s why the European classical composers are so helpful for developing ideas as well as listening and transcribing other Jazz musicians you like, I think Classical and Jazz traditions all compliment each other. For example, opera really gives me the ideas to phrase a lime in a particular way, or listen clearly to how each idea is constructed in terms of the shape of it.
That was beautiful... this has been a big problem... was wondering why my fingers can move as fast as I want them when I'm reading music but they trip over themselves when I'm trying a fast line in a solo... I guess I'm just running in blind... thank you...
@@1Dubbelman Don't make fun of violas, they are beautiful instruments that too few people play. Don't scare people away from them with shitty offending memes.
A lot of fast players play like that is they need to, but I guess it depends on what type of music your playing. Most musicians can’t read as good as you because of your training yet the bass instrument or any other they play is done well. Ijs
Yeah u gotta learn every scale, ever. in every key, and every permutation and every combination of permutations AND Listen to a stupid amount of music. To play unlimited you must practice unlimited as well
Absolutely so. Performing music is not a circus side show where you‘wow’ people for a short duration of time and then they move on to another exhibit and forget all about you. People who seek out live performances of music do so because they have experienced something very special and personal at live performances and they are hoping to experience that magic again. It’s an ancient ritual and the musicians are the priests who invoke the spirits of the muses. There are definitely some really exhilarating songs that have a fast tempo; Giant Steps comes to mind. _And_, there are also many medium tempo songs that will charm the shirt right off your back with the vivid colors they paint, and the gracefully articulated melodic lines that unfold like the cadences of a clever and inspired poem. Whatever you play, whether it be like a flash of lightening, or like the slow deliberate path of the moon across the night sky, it must be executed with mastery and ease; and it has to touch your audience just right. Speed will come with time and experience. Forcing it kills everything. In and of itself it amounts to very little. At UCLA Kenny Burrell used to organize a yearly tribute to Duke Ellington. One year, Stevie Wonder calls that afternoon to say he wants to perform his song, Sir Duke, with his band at the event that evening. So I went to Royce Hall to observe whatever I might get a chance to see, like Stevie warming up his chops on the piano. But I didn’t see Stevie cause he wasn’t there for the afternoon set up. Turns out Stevie takes the stage cold. He’s so much a musician that every note from beginning to end is perfect - no warm up, no rehearsal. Just comes out on stage cold for a single number, and he sounds exactly how he sounds in the studio recordings of Songs in the Key of Life. Yeah, he’s really all that. But what I did see was his guitarist sitting back stage with a new girlfriend (my guess) noodling on his instrument like a boss. I mean, he had all these jazzy funk chops he was playing up and down the fret board. You almost want to ask him, “hey, how did you learn to play all those notes”. It was fairly impressive. You could honestly say he played with himself extraordinarily well. So that was 5 in the afternoon. Stevie and his band probably hit the stage about 9:30 that night as the event is sorta coming to an end. So you’d think Mr. Chops is gonna be strumming up a storm and making Sir Duke really pop. But no. He might as well have not even been up there. When it came to game time, he apparently had nothing to add to the groove or texture. He looked kind of lost or nervous, and was surprisingly quiet for all his impressive antics backstage a few hours earlier. All those fast runs and noodling he could display with verve and panache backstage before the concert - when it’s not called for, and doesn’t count - added up to nothing when the hour of execution was at hand. While Stevie is singing, “They can feel it all o-o-ver...”, this poor guy couldn’t conjure up a canker sore.
Anyone else: Try "Bass Pilgrim" - Renauld Garcia-Fons. here on TH-cam. Some interesting finger technique and !MY! very fast kick at the end, full neck 5 strings.
So dope. C. McBride's playing on upright gave all upright players a new hope to what is possible. All the while the bottom remains intact and un-compromised.
yep. McBride is the man. That's why we call him McBreezy around here!
"Don't worry about the speeds, worry about the idea" then build your technique around the idea. Got it, thank you Mr. McBride
I was searching for a video of finger technique to learn to play faster, to be actually able to execute more ideas, and I got this"Just take your fingers and go like that". Wow! it is much more simple then I would have ever thought:-)
.... it is 5 min later...I tried it, and it seems really simple as that. My slowness was pretty much in the thinking that I do something "more" then just "going like that" with my fingers. The brain is learning by itself to move the fingers as needed now, no manual or a lesson needed. Many mistakes happen. I is just the beginning, but it is like a crystalization, and with a little trust and lot of practice the fingers will act automaticaly without a thought and just execute the idea. It will be like driving a car, when you know it.
That’s why the European classical composers are so helpful for developing ideas as well as listening and transcribing other Jazz musicians you like, I think Classical and Jazz traditions all compliment each other. For example, opera really gives me the ideas to phrase a lime in a particular way, or listen clearly to how each idea is constructed in terms of the shape of it.
Such great advice, musical ideas of lasting value, not just playing fast.
This was fresh cool way of thinking
walking at 300bpm just with the index finger.... lol
Tom Berkmann 320 to be more exact 😂
Honestly...very true. After you had grab very good the idea.. you can play it fast..wow thanks 👆🏾🎶🎵
That was beautiful... this has been a big problem... was wondering why my fingers can move as fast as I want them when I'm reading music but they trip over themselves when I'm trying a fast line in a solo...
I guess I'm just running in blind... thank you...
Love that guy
Dropping some serious wisdom!!!
You and Peter Martin great 2 minute jazz. Short and sweet
Wow, monster player.. whoa
whoa
Stronghands.
Rumor has it when he fingers a girl, she's ruined for other men..
Sorry, had to..
Great video !
This man makes the upright look like a viola
Twosetviolin: It's treason then
@@1Dubbelman Don't make fun of violas, they are beautiful instruments that too few people play. Don't scare people away from them with shitty offending memes.
@@F0nkyNinja well.....
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They play alto clef
Is right!
A lot of fast players play like that is they need to, but I guess it depends on what type of music your playing. Most musicians can’t read as good as you because of your training yet the bass instrument or any other they play is done well. Ijs
I was able to play fast as lightning on electric and it sounded great playing a pentatonic minor scale, but it was limited.
Yeah u gotta learn every scale, ever. in every key, and every permutation and every combination of permutations AND Listen to a stupid amount of music.
To play unlimited you must practice unlimited as well
@@annoingdude But also INTELLIGENTLY too. One of my sometimes failings.
@@willb1157 bod me too I’ll have put in like four hours in the shed and be like “did I learn anything just now?
Absolutely so. Performing music is not a circus side show where you‘wow’ people for a short duration of time and then they move on to another exhibit and forget all about you. People who seek out live performances of music do so because they have experienced something very special and personal at live performances and they are hoping to experience that magic again. It’s an ancient ritual and the musicians are the priests who invoke the spirits of the muses. There are definitely some really exhilarating songs that have a fast tempo; Giant Steps comes to mind. _And_, there are also many medium tempo songs that will charm the shirt right off your back with the vivid colors they paint, and the gracefully articulated melodic lines that unfold like the cadences of a clever and inspired poem. Whatever you play, whether it be like a flash of lightening, or like the slow deliberate path of the moon across the night sky, it must be executed with mastery and ease; and it has to touch your audience just right. Speed will come with time and experience. Forcing it kills everything. In and of itself it amounts to very little.
At UCLA Kenny Burrell used to organize a yearly tribute to Duke Ellington. One year, Stevie Wonder calls that afternoon to say he wants to perform his song, Sir Duke, with his band at the event that evening. So I went to Royce Hall to observe whatever I might get a chance to see, like Stevie warming up his chops on the piano. But I didn’t see Stevie cause he wasn’t there for the afternoon set up. Turns out Stevie takes the stage cold. He’s so much a musician that every note from beginning to end is perfect - no warm up, no rehearsal. Just comes out on stage cold for a single number, and he sounds exactly how he sounds in the studio recordings of Songs in the Key of Life. Yeah, he’s really all that. But what I did see was his guitarist sitting back stage with a new girlfriend (my guess) noodling on his instrument like a boss. I mean, he had all these jazzy funk chops he was playing up and down the fret board. You almost want to ask him, “hey, how did you learn to play all those notes”. It was fairly impressive. You could honestly say he played with himself extraordinarily well.
So that was 5 in the afternoon. Stevie and his band probably hit the stage about 9:30 that night as the event is sorta coming to an end. So you’d think Mr. Chops is gonna be strumming up a storm and making Sir Duke really pop. But no. He might as well have not even been up there. When it came to game time, he apparently had nothing to add to the groove or texture. He looked kind of lost or nervous, and was surprisingly quiet for all his impressive antics backstage a few hours earlier. All those fast runs and noodling he could display with verve and panache backstage before the concert - when it’s not called for, and doesn’t count - added up to nothing when the hour of execution was at hand. While Stevie is singing, “They can feel it all o-o-ver...”, this poor guy couldn’t conjure up a canker sore.
Well, you certainly didn't forget about him.
💯👍🏼
Anyone else: Try "Bass Pilgrim" - Renauld Garcia-Fons. here on TH-cam. Some interesting finger technique and !MY! very fast kick at the end, full neck 5 strings.
th-cam.com/video/L99PCtSVR8s/w-d-xo.html
Just as applicable to bass guitat
1.40 ....cool ;.) I agree !!!
1:40
this guy is funny. he is my secret mind that I never reveal
waht is a horn line ? trumpet frases ? ty
Melodies written for trumpets, trombones and/or saxophones. Certain little sections of melody can be called 'phrases'.
@@Gretchluver1 Solos too
(fast bass jazz music)
Lines = phrases
oh shit
ok hmmmmm but what i expected was e.g.. relax between each note, or don't press harder as you get faster, or built up some muscles .... or whatsoever
If by f. e. you meant for example, it's e. g
@@bryanleigh6497 :-) thank you
This was not a video for tips on how to play fast.
It was about how to play fast and well
OK, you didn't get it. Finally, impossible to play fast with a slow brain...