Soloing Concepts for Bass Vol. ONE. Part 1 & 2.

Soloing Concepts Vol. ONE.

Welcome to the new video course ! 

Please note:

I have split the new course into Vol 1 and 2, and EACH of those volumes has two videos to download. This means the file sizes are more manageable to download.

You get TWO video files and TWO .pdfs -download everything!!

Why do this? Because it makes for smaller, more manageable downloads-and this way if you then want to watch these on a phone or iPad (after you download them onto a computer first) it makes it much easier.

Vol 1

In volume 1 I discuss analyzing a chord progression-such as the one found in Autumn Leaves, and then give you a breakdown of the various scales or modes I recommend trying over the chords presented here. The vocabulary I show you is exactly what great players like Mike Stern, Cannonball Adderley and Jaco Pastorius used on the many classic recordings they have made. 

  Jaco -on Donna Lee for instance -used a great deal of half whole diminished ideas over the V7 chords there…yet far too few bassists make use of this incredible sounding scale in their solos…

I also take you through WHY the HW Diminished scale is a better choice than say only using mixolydian…

 You’ll find discussions on specific choice modes from Harmonic Minor AND Harmonic Major ( in particular the 2nd mode, the Dorian b5) and of course (!) the Melodic Minor. I show you where I use the Locrian #2 and Altered Scale in particular. Plus some great ways to practice coonnecting different scale/modes from II chords into V chords.

Also note by note explanations in the PDF of the modes i disucss in the video.