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my interpretation of THE POCKET is.........b@lls deep in a hot chick! :shock:
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Man... I want to quote almost all of you... cuz you're right!
I just came home from a recording in a small studio and heard myself pulling off the most horrible "off the pocket" I've ever heard. It gets so obvious in the studio.
Need to practise!!!!
Saxonbass, what's the GOB thing?
I just came home from a recording in a small studio and heard myself pulling off the most horrible "off the pocket" I've ever heard. It gets so obvious in the studio.
Need to practise!!!!
Saxonbass, what's the GOB thing?
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GOBs = Grumpy Old Buggers...
It's an attitude... it's a way of life... it's finding you're growing body hair in the most unexpected places... :shock:
It's that feeling that you've been partaking of life's journey... then you suddenly got off at the wrong stop!
It's an attitude... it's a way of life... it's finding you're growing body hair in the most unexpected places... :shock:
It's that feeling that you've been partaking of life's journey... then you suddenly got off at the wrong stop!
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Michael J said:
Sounds good Doc and Kris. I've begun my adventure into jazz and latin, someday hopefully making me able to mix it with my funk/soul/hip hop genes 8)
Or much simpler: Acid Jazz is the shizzle! I do however wanna go the "Miller Way" - just with my own ideas one day
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I like a lot some of the things mentioned in here. Like the fact that note length is very important. The thing is that the length of the notes you play is JUST AS IMPORTANT as the lenght of the notes that you don't play, meaning: silence is the most important part of a good grooving bass line. Besides that there is the whole "choosing the pitch of the notes you play" part.
For practicing here is what I suggest, get a drum loop running, wether it is using a Drum Machine, using a loop player in your computer or practicing with a real drummer and try to groove using just one note (the root of a chord). After you feel you are locked in with the drum pattern, try to add some notes. In bass, the most important notes of the chord are generally the root and 5th, so you can keep it this way without losing the groove you started with.
Then try changing chords, like maybe doing a common progression like V-II-I or I-IV-V always playing roots and 5ths. For passing notes (going from one chord to another) you can try throwing in a half step or a step lower than the next chord somewhere in the last beat of the chord's measure. You'll see that your bass lines will start making a lot more sense in the future.
Another thing to keep in mind when talking about "locking it up", is that music is not about the drummer and bass player only, but actually about the bass player laying down a moving foundation to support the main melody instrument, wether is vocals or any other principal instrument. So you should listen and analyze the chords that your guitar or piano player in using so that you know what notes you can use in your bass line. For example, let's say your guitar player is playing a G7 chord, this is not the same as a G Major 7th chord, the G7 means that the 7th is flat (b) so you should never play a note half step lower than the root while your harmony instrument is playing a G7 chord.
But back to the basics, you can never go wrong with 5ths, unles it's a b5 chord, which are not very common.
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For practicing here is what I suggest, get a drum loop running, wether it is using a Drum Machine, using a loop player in your computer or practicing with a real drummer and try to groove using just one note (the root of a chord). After you feel you are locked in with the drum pattern, try to add some notes. In bass, the most important notes of the chord are generally the root and 5th, so you can keep it this way without losing the groove you started with.
Then try changing chords, like maybe doing a common progression like V-II-I or I-IV-V always playing roots and 5ths. For passing notes (going from one chord to another) you can try throwing in a half step or a step lower than the next chord somewhere in the last beat of the chord's measure. You'll see that your bass lines will start making a lot more sense in the future.
Another thing to keep in mind when talking about "locking it up", is that music is not about the drummer and bass player only, but actually about the bass player laying down a moving foundation to support the main melody instrument, wether is vocals or any other principal instrument. So you should listen and analyze the chords that your guitar or piano player in using so that you know what notes you can use in your bass line. For example, let's say your guitar player is playing a G7 chord, this is not the same as a G Major 7th chord, the G7 means that the 7th is flat (b) so you should never play a note half step lower than the root while your harmony instrument is playing a G7 chord.
But back to the basics, you can never go wrong with 5ths, unles it's a b5 chord, which are not very common.
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Kris said:
Indeed
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odominguez said:I like a lot some of the things mentioned in here. Like the fact that note length is very important. The thing is that the length of the notes you play is JUST AS IMPORTANT as the lenght of the notes that you don't play, meaning: silence is the most important part of a good grooving bass line. Besides that there is the whole "choosing the pitch of the notes you play" part.
For practicing here is what I suggest, get a drum loop running, wether it is using a Drum Machine, using a loop player in your computer or practicing with a real drummer and try to groove using just one note (the root of a chord). After you feel you are locked in with the drum pattern, try to add some notes. In bass, the most important notes of the chord are generally the root and 5th, so you can keep it this way without losing the groove you started with.
Then try changing chords, like maybe doing a common progression like V-II-I or I-IV-V always playing roots and 5ths. For passing notes (going from one chord to another) you can try throwing in a half step or a step lower than the next chord somewhere in the last beat of the chord's measure. You'll see that your bass lines will start making a lot more sense in the future.
Another thing to keep in mind when talking about "locking it up", is that music is not about the drummer and bass player only, but actually about the bass player laying down a moving foundation to support the main melody instrument, wether is vocals or any other principal instrument. So you should listen and analyze the chords that your guitar or piano player in using so that you know what notes you can use in your bass line. For example, let's say your guitar player is playing a G7 chord, this is not the same as a G Major 7th chord, the G7 means that the 7th is flat (b) so you should never play a note half step lower than the root while your harmony instrument is playing a G7 chord.
But back to the basics, you can never go wrong with 5ths, unles it's a b5 chord, which are not very common.
You sound just like my teachers ollie! Thanks for your knowledge!
