One of the best videos for really getting that jazz sound, I teach friends and family that play bass and I pass on what I learn from you. You’ve really influenced me a sculpted some of my best bass playing, when others show off you show how it’s done. Your awesome Scott thank you so much
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Very clean, clear, tutorials/lessons. You're the BEST!! I'm still working on your TEEN TOWN lesson. Need to get thru first part clean.
It doesn't just sound like Donna Lee, it IS Donna Lee! The first two parts are note-for-note lines from the head, except in a different key and functioning differently against the harmony. Even the 3rd one starts the same as another line, except it resolves conclusively. Fun stuff!
Actually, I'm mistaken: the 2nd part is also sliiiiiiiightly different from the line I was thinking of. But the first part is definitely the opening note-for-note.
The first part was a bit of a finger tongue-twister for me, but made sense musically. However, the second part, tho easier to play, is NUTS when you think that it's based on the A dorian scale. My mind is still analyzing it... starts at the 4th, then flat 9th, 9th, in a strange chromatic-ish climb to minor 3rd, then low 5th, flat 9th, minor 7th and finally the root. NUTS!!! Totally blows my mind of what kind of unexpected licks you can overlay on a scale. Thank you!!!
HI Scott! As always, great job! I'm getting better and better simply studying one of your riffs a day, and they're all great! This time, only, I dare suggesting an "improvement": in my version of this lick I play E - B - G# - A instead of E - B - G - A before the last phrase with the rake. It sounds more jazzy to me, that G sounded too odd, even if at speed you can hardly tell it's different.
Everyone referring to Donna Lee is completely incorrect! It's the way horn lines are played in bebop. Just listen to Parker and sounds like this all the time. Check out Jeff Andrews for an amazing modern bebop bass solos. I'll have this line learned up to speed(even faster) in about 5 minutes. Great lessons Scott and I enjoy your jazz and bebop theory lessons. Greetings from New Zealand. Craig.
I found an easier way to play it (at my skill level) with less dependence on my pinky finger. Then I went back to your fingering, since my pinky finger needs more practice! Another helpful lesson.
Maybe you could do a lesson on So What? I already know how to play it but as it is such a jazz classic, maybe others would be interested in that!? Btw: That Donna Lee reference is being noticed... :D
n.stoeterau Incidentally, thanks to an article I read recently by the excellent Marc Sabatella (check him out!), I learned that the chord riff at the start of "So What?" are quartal chords (all fourths) and are EADGB and DGCFA (then play the same thing starting a semitone up, bass notes F and Eb, for the modulated bit). So, as guitarists will immediately recognise EADGB as the standard tuning (and the same for bass players but just the first four notes obviously ;) ), if you can play the first open strings on a guitar or bass or with a straight barre, you can play "So What?"!!! Just move it up the neck a bit. ;) Pretty neat, eh? This of course gives the hilarious possibility of playing it using a BOTTLENECK (!).
+n.stoeterau He alreadymade a video talking 'bout doing walking bass on jazz, and used 'So What'' as an example. You can easily find it in his channel.
I have a question for you Scott?? I've been toying with the idea of joining your Academy for a while now?? And for years I used the traditional picking style as you do, but a few years back I was in the studio recording and it became obvious there was an irregularity in my technique and as I was playing in a punk band at the time it made sense to change to using a plectrum! Which improved my playing quite a bit! So I'm now watching your videos which are pretty incredible and I don't know what to do??? What do you think????
a really challenging lick!!! gonna spend the rest of the day learning this...anyway you mentioned the use of dorian scale...so is this lick only applicable in let's say G major's Amin?? or C major's Dmin?? if you know what I mean
Hi Scott, awesome lesson as usual, great technique and armonic learnings here from an intermediate player. What would you recommend for an intermediate player who doesnt studies at a music school to learn and practice how to use this awesome out-of-scale notes like that diminished first(Ab) and then the A# in the D section, and well this whole awesome jazz notes world. I learn your licks like these and the chicken by jaco at my own speed, but find it hard to apply this stuff to my own playing, and really looking forward to get better at it. Any advice would be really helpful, thanks man!
I've been playing bass since August and I've have the pinky thing you mentioned in one of your videos, and I also tend to leave me other fingers open compared to the one that is playing the fret. What do I do help with this?
just started to check out your stuff, and i have to say it's really impressive, you're a great instructor. is there a little bit more advanced level though? btw what accent is that? i'm not a native speaker, so i'm curious, but i'm guessing it's some northern part of Great Britian
Hi Scott! Nice lick, but I wouldn't say it's jazzy... maybe it would sound better on a fretless gtr. By the way, how about posting some fretless-specific lessons? For example, how to perform various types of articulation, pull-offs, playing chords etc.. Cheers! :)
It sound good. Jazz is expensive. Look at the work to play 3 seconds. Bass playing is a really advanced occupation. There should be a lot of bass paying.
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One of the BEST teacher on Web! Thanks SCOTT :)
One of the best videos for really getting that jazz sound, I teach friends and family that play bass and I pass on what I learn from you. You’ve really influenced me a sculpted some of my best bass playing, when others show off you show how it’s done. Your awesome Scott thank you so much
Yes Stuey! Thanks for your support! 🤘🏻
Love the Donna Lee start. 😃
you are the best scott , really !!!!
Beautiful! First part sounded like Donna lee to me :)
Marco Burrometo Ha - you got me! ;)
Marco Burrometo yeah a Little to much like donna lee tbh
Funkmaster K copying good is an art :D
Funkmaster K that's what jazz is all about though... the way it's seen is as language; no two players are going to play something the same way
Basic bebop lesson=cut Donna lee
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Very clean, clear, tutorials/lessons. You're the BEST!! I'm still working on your TEEN TOWN lesson. Need to get thru first part clean.
Fantastic Lesson Scott
Beautiful lick might look into it when I find the time. Reminder of why I love bass.
Amin Jindani Do it, Amin! :)
It doesn't just sound like Donna Lee, it IS Donna Lee! The first two parts are note-for-note lines from the head, except in a different key and functioning differently against the harmony. Even the 3rd one starts the same as another line, except it resolves conclusively. Fun stuff!
Actually, I'm mistaken: the 2nd part is also sliiiiiiiightly different from the line I was thinking of. But the first part is definitely the opening note-for-note.
Awesome as allwayz...Thanks Scott
Maktheknife Scott Ahhh cheers man! :)
Great stuff!! Can't beat a tricky lick!! Ooo eer missus!
Paul Palmer Groove on Paul! ;)
The first part was a bit of a finger tongue-twister for me, but made sense musically. However, the second part, tho easier to play, is NUTS when you think that it's based on the A dorian scale. My mind is still analyzing it... starts at the 4th, then flat 9th, 9th, in a strange chromatic-ish climb to minor 3rd, then low 5th, flat 9th, minor 7th and finally the root. NUTS!!! Totally blows my mind of what kind of unexpected licks you can overlay on a scale. Thank you!!!
so sick!!!! I had to pick up the bass and learn it immediately.
Excellent lesson! Thanks!!!
Scott, you're the best Heapcat...
the begining looks like the beginning of "Donna Lee"
....very fine line!
HI Scott! As always, great job! I'm getting better and better simply studying one of your riffs a day, and they're all great! This time, only, I dare suggesting an "improvement": in my version of this lick I play E - B - G# - A instead of E - B - G - A before the last phrase with the rake. It sounds more jazzy to me, that G sounded too odd, even if at speed you can hardly tell it's different.
Fabio D'Andrea no
ProlificNewCamel Sorry, what?
Everyone referring to Donna Lee is completely incorrect! It's the way horn lines are played in bebop. Just listen to Parker and sounds like this all the time. Check out Jeff Andrews for an amazing modern bebop bass solos. I'll have this line learned up to speed(even faster) in about 5 minutes. Great lessons Scott and I enjoy your jazz and bebop theory lessons. Greetings from New Zealand. Craig.
Time to watch a speed tutorial again lol Wonderful video!
Can't wait to mess around with this when I get home.
try going to play donna lee and then coming back to this...LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE haha very similar in the beginning
4:30 AM Greetings from México, Amigo!
El Pinxe Snok hey hey... greetings from the UK! :)
:)
I found an easier way to play it (at my skill level) with less dependence on my pinky finger. Then I went back to your fingering, since my pinky finger needs more practice! Another helpful lesson.
Thank you!
pengen bener bisa main seperti itu, thanks its good tutorial
Scott, you're great. I like you. Salute :)
At 7:00 EEVEEEN FLOOOOOW!
Geat vid mate! I didnt even need tabs :D
I have this same modelled bass
Maybe you could do a lesson on So What? I already know how to play it but as it is such a jazz classic, maybe others would be interested in that!?
Btw: That Donna Lee reference is being noticed... :D
n.stoeterau Incidentally, thanks to an article I read recently by the excellent Marc Sabatella (check him out!), I learned that the chord riff at the start of "So What?" are quartal chords (all fourths) and are EADGB and DGCFA (then play the same thing starting a semitone up, bass notes F and Eb, for the modulated bit).
So, as guitarists will immediately recognise EADGB as the standard tuning (and the same for bass players but just the first four notes obviously ;) ), if you can play the first open strings on a guitar or bass or with a straight barre, you can play "So What?"!!! Just move it up the neck a bit. ;)
Pretty neat, eh?
This of course gives the hilarious possibility of playing it using a BOTTLENECK (!).
Cad Delworth But I think that would only account for the guitar part of the tune... The bass riff is a little different... :)
n.stoeterau That's why I said "chord riff:" the tbass, at least ay the start, is playing the melody line. :)
Cad Delworth True that... :)
+n.stoeterau He alreadymade a video talking 'bout doing walking bass on jazz, and used 'So What'' as an example. You can easily find it in his channel.
I have a question for you Scott?? I've been toying with the idea of joining your Academy for a while now?? And for years I used the traditional picking style as you do, but a few years back I was in the studio recording and it became obvious there was an irregularity in my technique and as I was playing in a punk band at the time it made sense to change to using a plectrum! Which improved my playing quite a bit! So I'm now watching your videos which are pretty incredible and I don't know what to do??? What do you think????
Yeah from Donna Lee. its cool!
a really challenging lick!!! gonna spend the rest of the day learning this...anyway you mentioned the use of dorian scale...so is this lick only applicable in let's say G major's Amin?? or C major's Dmin?? if you know what I mean
How often do you use that in the studio or hard rock. The notes on some music lines would be nice. Cool for playing for your buddies?
Anybody knows what brand is the amp in the back?
Still far beyond my ability, but it gives me something to look forward to :D.
what pickups are in your bass?
Hi Scott, awesome lesson as usual, great technique and armonic learnings here from an intermediate player. What would you recommend for an intermediate player who doesnt studies at a music school to learn and practice how to use this awesome out-of-scale notes like that diminished first(Ab) and then the A# in the D section, and well this whole awesome jazz notes world. I learn your licks like these and the chicken by jaco at my own speed, but find it hard to apply this stuff to my own playing, and really looking forward to get better at it. Any advice would be really helpful, thanks man!
I've been playing bass since August and I've have the pinky thing you mentioned in one of your videos, and I also tend to leave me other fingers open compared to the one that is playing the fret. What do I do help with this?
Porque você usa luva para tocar ?
just started to check out your stuff, and i have to say it's really impressive, you're a great instructor. is there a little bit more advanced level though? btw what accent is that? i'm not a native speaker, so i'm curious, but i'm guessing it's some northern part of Great Britian
Cool
Daniel Villamor Cheers Daniel :)
Hi Scott! Nice lick, but I wouldn't say it's jazzy... maybe it would sound better on a fretless gtr. By the way, how about posting some fretless-specific lessons? For example, how to perform various types of articulation, pull-offs, playing chords etc..
Cheers! :)
Lovely sounding amp and cab your using there! What are they? Awesome video btw, learning it now :P
Funny because I started using my pinky for playing now....see if I could get a shot at this hahaha
the first part remind me donna lee ...
ariete2011hd That's the one! :)
Scott, it was very cognitively.
And thanks for so many laughs in the end
didnt know prof X Xavier teach bass
It sound good. Jazz is expensive. Look at the work to play 3 seconds. Bass playing is a really advanced occupation. There should be a lot of bass paying.
pick a tricky lick, pick a tricky lick! licky licky lick!
3:19
The lick starts like Donna Lee
What's his snapchat
Just post the Tab then play normal, then slow..
great ty
but every lesson is like: blah blah blah buy my tutorials blah blah blah 30 seconds of actual playing blah blah blah