Playing Latin Rhythms on Bass Guitar

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Okay, something important to understand, is that not all jazz is just swing, is just regular four-four on the floor or even three-four waltz feels or whatever. Basically, we have Latin jazz too. And this is some of the more interesting jazz we have. Has a little more rhythmic variation. It's a little more fun to play on the bass too. Not just walking quarter notes, you're now adding some rhythms. So remember from our rhythm practices, we're going to use that, we're going to use our metronome here to see how some of these work. So we have some different genres of Latin. We have bossas, sambas, and calypsos. There's bossa novas, there's Afro-Cuban. Basically the important thing to know is, just listening to this kind of music, such as Antonio Carlos Jobim type of things, to figure out the differences really. They're pretty subtle. So we'll just play some Latin lines without thinking too much about which ones they are, okay. So let's start with C, say we're just comping over C. We're going to use C, in its fifth, okay. So if this was regular walking time... it would be kind of boring, but we're playing Latin now. So now, let's say the count is one, two, three, four. C, G, G, C, C, G, G C, C, G, G, C,C, G,G. You'll play it like that.

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