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Summary: Leave space in jazz bass as an advanced bass guitar technique; learn how from a professional bass player and teacher in this free music instruction video.

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Ryan Larson Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his twelve-key technique... read more

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Leaving Space as a Bass Guitar Technique

CASEY CORMIER: An important aspect of dub that you might not find in reggae is, even though reggae is about simplicity, dub is about space. It's about leaving space, it's about the bass dropping in the outflank. We are so used to as the bass player always being the one who's playing, but this can be one of the most difficult things to think about. So think about, so say a line that we already did, [PLAYS BUSY BASS LINE], no. Sorry, cut out all that other extra area. Basically in a dub band, or a dub-sounding band, this would be where other things would be happening. Some kind of effects would be occurring, an echo or something over something else that someone had played. So the bassist's job sometimes is to drop out [PLAYS DUB BASS LINE]. So, keeping a line in your head is important, but also being able to know when to drop out, or just to simplify. You don't even have to be just in the dub genre, you could be playing with any band and say the lead singer was making a speech, if you play a complicated line that whole time [PLAYS BASS LINE], every once in a while, leaving some space will help you to stand out and really give everyone else a chance to really vary what's going on, and to hear something different. So think about leaving space when you're playing in a dub genre or even when you're making your own music with other people.

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