Why Play Jazz & Latin Grooves for Advanced Bass Guitar?

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Okay, so far we've really looked at theory fundamentals of the bass. Rhythmic and melodic theory, now we're going to get to learn how to play in some genres. Okay, basically the genres of blues and jazz and Latin jazz. These genres are important to learn because they're not always written out for you, what you're supposed to do on the bass, and it's really important to know, and also, there's something that, as a collaborative effort, you'll be playing a lot with other musicians, or at least something similar, and learning these styles will help you to play any style you want. Okay, we'll start with the twelve bar blues. Basically we'll look at the form, twelve bars of course being twelve measures in its repeated form, and we'll look at the arpeggios that we use to outline the seventh chords involved. We'll play a little bit of that, we'll learn a couple of different ways of making that a little more interesting, then we'll learn how to alter their typical blues line. We'll play a swing jazz too. Basically we'll start looking at chord changes. As we used our arpeggios before, we had chord changes. Now we're going to be able to connect things, not just by arpeggios, but start using chromatics and passing tones, passing chromatic tones too, to get from one place to another, from one chord to another, with still saying in the same key but making things a little more interesting. Now I'm going to do Latin jazz. So far everything has been quarter notes, and remember before in our rhythmic section we looked at how to read rhythms. Well now we'll explore some of these different rhythms for Latin jazz. There will be bossa, samba, and calypso rhythms, and just playing over chord changes, using Latin.

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