Playing Bass Beats on Steel Drums
Part of the Video Series How to Play Steel Pan Drums in a Band
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Playing Bass Beats on Steel Drums
Hi. I'm Alan Lightner with Expert Village. We're talking about the various roles that members of the steel drum family play in a traditional steel band setting. We're talking about the bass pans now, which we have here in front of us. The full skirt, the full fifty-five gallon oil barrel skirt. The same flat face that has been sunk down with the large size notes on them to give the bass sound. A typical part that would be played by a bass player in a Soca or a Calypso song with a steel band. When you've go those other strums going on that we've talked about in the double seconds and in the guitar cello parts, we've got those strums going on, the bass player is probably going to be playing a lot of down beats. We've got all those up beats going on, when the other parts. The bass player is going to be holding down the down beats. So if we were going to take our little melody, which I don't have the, enough notes to cover here, but that melody, we would play the bass notes on the down beats here. We would be playing something like this. One, two, a one, two, three, four. And do it again. That would be twice through on that pattern. Our little, that would be, it would work well with that little melody that we created and the little harmonies that we've been going over. That would be the first way that a bass player would play it. All on the down beats. And then there'd be some variations that we'll talk about next.
Hi. I'm Alan Lightner with Expert Village. We're talking about the various roles that members of the steel drum family play in a traditional steel band setting. We're talking about the bass pans now, which we have here in front of us. The full skirt, the full fifty-five gallon oil barrel skirt. The same flat face that has been sunk down with the large size notes on them to give the bass sound. A typical part that would be played by a bass player in a Soca or a Calypso song with a steel band. When you've go those other strums going on that we've talked about in the double seconds and in the guitar cello parts, we've got those strums going on, the bass player is probably going to be playing a lot of down beats. We've got all those up beats going on, when the other parts. The bass player is going to be holding down the down beats. So if we were going to take our little melody, which I don't have the, enough notes to cover here, but that melody, we would play the bass notes on the down beats here. We would be playing something like this. One, two, a one, two, three, four. And do it again. That would be twice through on that pattern. Our little, that would be, it would work well with that little melody that we created and the little harmonies that we've been going over. That would be the first way that a bass player would play it. All on the down beats. And then there'd be some variations that we'll talk about next.
About the Expert
Expert: Alan Mark Lightner is a master faculty member at the East Bay Center for Performing Arts where he served as the director of the steel pans and drum set departments. Read More
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