Advanced Bass Jazz Techniques

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CASEY CORMIER: So, in this section we'll be looking at harmonics, basically notes on the bass with which we create by touching above the fret and not actually putting pressure on it, and it creates high sounds. We're going to use that for tuning purposes, also for creating new tunings. So basically, dropping our E to a D, and if we needed to drop any other strings, we could do that and tune back using harmonics, which is pretty nice. You can use that and we could also check intonation by comparing those with our fretted ways of tuning, okay? We're going to use it also--harmonics for melodies, we're going to look at an example, a harmonic melody using triads with it, and then we're going to look at the genres of funk and reggae a little bit closer. You might have played some lines that were similar to that, but we're going to use, really, these eighth notes on the offbeats and space, basically, using some space and staccato lines to create really rhythmic music on our bass, 'cause that's what we are, we're a rhythm instrument. Then we're also going to learn, by the end of this lesson, how to transcribe melodically and rhythmically. This is important so that we can continue our advancing education on the electric bass with--or the bass guitar of any kind, with our ears and being able to use the thing we've learned with scales and patterns like--such as that in arpeggios, to really understand what we're doing when we transcribe, and to put it into--to synch things that will work for our fingers, and make our playing sound even better.

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