Contemporary Bass Guitar Grooves
with Bruce Gertz
Intermediate
29 lessons (1h 11m)
Sheet music included
Mobile, Tablet + Desktop
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Course Trailer
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Sample Lesson
Free
- Pulse & time
- Pulse, praticing time and articulation
- Jazz walking bass feel
- Straight time vs Swing time, G shuffle blues
- Latin feel with muted thumb
- Funk, slap, 16th notes and swing/funk with triplets
- Solo Jams swing/Funk
- Swing blues
- Double time, ballad feel
- Fast, Swing 320BPM, G Blues
- Articulation
- Articulations for walking style, pull offs, ghost (dead) notes, double pull offs
- Pick up notes, skips, drops
- Review of articulations combined in blues lines, C and C minor
- Funk note choices
- Latin Tumbao, roots, 5ths, 7ths, octave
- Building bass lines
- Building bass lines, point A to point B, brief theory of root motion, 8 approach options
- Example 1 - Getting started with roots & fifths
- How to play the root 5th, octave
- Examples 2, 3, 4, 5
- Play along tracks
- Play along tracks, example 1 without bass
- Play along tracks, example 2 without bass
- Play along tracks, example 3 without bass
- Play along tracks, example 4 without bass
- Play along tracks, example 5 without bass
- Advanced concepts
- Root motion and harmonic rhythm (beats per chord), scale and chromatic approach
- Approach notes
- Inversions, Triads
- Sequences
- Combinations of all ex.5, practice ex. 1-5
- About Bruce Gertz & Bass demo
Lesson plan (1h 11m)
Award-winning bassist and educator Bruce Gertz (Berklee) teaches you how to build bass lines and master the major feels you'll encounter on electric jazz bass in his series of dynamic online jazz bass lessons.
In this course, Bruce starts with a recap of the basics in jazz and base, introducing you to how he teaches key concepts of pulse & time. He then moves on to demonstrate the major feels you'll encounter as an electric jazz bassist including:
- Walking bass
- 16th note funk
- Slap bass
- Latin tumbao
- Double time
- Ballad feel and many more.
Bruce then looks in detail at key articulation techniques that will make your playing sound authentic and professional, including pull-offs, double pull-offs, ghost notes, pickup notes, skips and drops.
You'll then learn how a pro builds a bass line, bringing together harmony, groove and time-feel. Bruce explains 8 different approaches to creating a bass line, demonstrated over 5 sample chord progressions.
The course includes play along tunes for each of the 5 chord progressions. Also, as with all our MusicGurus courses, you can slow-down and loop any part of the jazz bass lesson so you can easily learn and copy what Bruce plays.
Please note this course was originally published as a DVD and converted from this format - it is therefore in Standard Definition quality.
Once you’ve completed Bruce’s jazz bass lessons, browse our full collection of jazz music courses to continue your journey in the genre.
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