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Dave has such a cool way of stubbling on his walk, hes one if my favorites❤

My favorite bass solo, probably by anyone, is Charlie's solo on Brecker's "The Cost of Living". It's simple, but super emo. So much pain and sadness. Beautiful.

Great episode. I hated learning solfège,but I’m so appreciative I know it. Great guest too, I was cracking up

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Using solfege activates different areas of the brain than using neutral syllables or song text. If you sing melodies in an MRI machine the parts of the brain activated will be very distinct. Subjectively, it's the difference between S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G every word in a poem and speaking it aloud with feeling. If solfege "ruined your life," it's the fault of your teacher (sadly, a very common state of affairs).

thank you two! once upon a time i was taught moveable do. i can see the merit to moveable do, fixed do, and no solfege. it's probably worth learning solfege but just a few years. that's plenty. take care.

Love your videos sm man and I don’t even play upright just great music/bass advice

Hindustani musician chiming in here - all music instruction in the North Indian tradition uses their solfege syllables, called "sargam" (sa re ga ma pa dha ni sa). It's essential for anyone learning the music, and it's also used for improvisation in performance.

Lovely. Thanks for sharing the discussion.

I knew a sax player who told me he went to a sax teacher from Italy who started him with solfege, and didn't put him on sax for two years...

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6 minutes in and I’m still waiting for her to stop emotionally babbling so the issue can be discussed. 9 minutes, he’s still being patient waiting for a chance to talk, now she’s telling irrelevant stories, now she’s jumping around incoherently and decided to play a song, she will still not shut up, aaaand I’m out. Sorry bro. Feel for you.

Great discussion! The whole reason I taught myself solfege is because it's quicker to say/think a note like Bb (te)

That was a fun discussion and demonstration. Thank you both - and you guys should do it again!

Interesting discussion. I would think you would have to know solfege like the back of your hand, know it so well that you don't have to think about it for it to be effective? And how practical is it on the bandstand?

High quality instruction as always, Cole! You rock! 🎉

NHOP in his album with Joe Pass, 'CHOPS' is as ever incredible. I still remember seeing him and being amazed at a Scottish Bass Trust ? workshop weekend thing I think it was 95 or 96 he did an evening solo bass session and being for weeks after, 'he used three fingers!' as up to that point I'd been trying to use one or sometimes two a la Ray Brown. and 'He played chords!'

Very interesting bass lines. Miroslav is a killer on Now He Sings Now He Sobs. I was listening to Trio 64 the other day not knowing who the bass player was, I thought it was Chuck Israels giving the period, but then I heard the quite adventurous playing and thought “wow that’s unusual for Bill Evans?!”, very interesting. I would be interested in future walking videos with players like Jimmy Garrison (breaking the rhythm and walking again) , George Tucker maybe (the Horace Parlan trio albums on Blue Note have delicious bass playing by him)

Black Dog worked surprisingly well.

One thing to note about P. Washington is that he always walks with his index finger and solos w his middle.

I see that you have joined the gym sir!

Roy Haynes! The greatest indeed 👑

If it makes you feel any better, I've been told that NHØP had a very "electric" setup with piezos in the fingerboard, and he couldn't play his style on any bass. 😊

keep up the great work! love your videos edit; and damn holland is handsome with that beard

Thank you a lot. I thought DH had more of a classical conservatory background than rock, and actually I can see it now. The main reason I was asking for this parallel right hand technique is because Dave said to us that he tried the three fingers technique in the style of NHØP, but he realised that he actually could play with two fingers at the same speed with three fingers, so he decided to play with just two fingers. Actually he told us that speed is related only to how fast you can think, and that you cannot play consistently faster than your thinking speed. Good for thought.

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Man, you're truly the number one.❤

the exciting whites.... bro... hilarious. These videos rule.

That exciting whites joke was hilarious, great video Mr. Davis

thank you, great video!

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Charlie also loved Bach. Whenever I study a Bach chorale I'm struck by how often the bass and middle voices sound like something I heard Charlie play somewhere. I remember hearing him playing with Pat Metheny, Paul Motian, and Juliius Hemphill. They opened with a long fast tune; Pat and Julius played long solos full of everything they knew. And then Charlie took his solo. In 2 bars he brought everything down to a single oscillating riff off the open G with motion back and forth between C and Bb on the A string. And kept it there, unchanging, for the next five or six minutes. Not only was it not boring, it was fascinating and emotionally profound in ways that made everyone else's playing seem ephemeral. I remember when he finally went back into the main groove the whole room just erupted with applause. The other musicians were just gaping at the beauty and audacity of what he'd done. Of course for Charlie it was just another day at the office. And what pitch! That's his tone, with all the upper overtones fully integrated into the column of sound; it makes his fundamental sound like a giant sequoia or a blue whale or the Grand Canyon.

Hey, dont you wanna do a video on Miroslav Vitous?

Beginner level electric bassist here. Thanks so much for your analysis on the late great Scott LaFaro.

I was watching that Rick beato pat metheny interview and Pat said Charlie would play the root and you would hear infinity.

Well done. Worth buying.

You are a fantastic, articulate teacher(and player).Hope you enjoyed your HARD BOP HANNUKAH rehearsal and...Happy New Year!

Any recommendations/suggestions on where to look to purchase a good quality double bass for a beginner? I've been playing electric for a bit but would love to learn upright.

The playing on this is so insane. I hope Cole is going record with this group soon. 🤔

Thanks for upload different styles of walking. Did you switch strings from Daddario Zyex medium to Thomastik Spirocores s 42 ?

When I saw Keith Jarrett at the lighthouse in Hermosa Beach Wayback when…The only walking Charlie Haden did was over to the bar to drink himself silly… Seems like he was trying to kick some thing if you know what I mean. Keith Jarrett started playing the piano and was so angry that it was out of tune that he stopped the set and started tuning it himself… Dewey Redman on tenor Paul motion on drums. Another epic night at the lighthouse in the 70s

Love Peter Washington too, he rips!

Thank you!

What about Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen who used all the fingers on the right hand?

The bassist Peter Dominguez told me one of Ron Carte's jokes about Charlie Haden (paraphrasing slightly) "why why do do you you walk walk like like this this, do do you you talk talk like like this this?"

Charlie Haden used his RH middle finger to pluck the E string. You can often hear the snap of his middle finger against his palm when he plays on the E string. On PW's RH, he walks with his middle finger over his index (ala Neal Miner, or Ben Alison) BUT, when he solos, he switches them, putting index over middle finger like you do. Fascinating!

This needs a second chapter on two fingers starting with Dave Holland, Scott LaFaro, Christian McBride, and close with the incredible three fingers technique of NHOP

I'm coming from electric bass so I tend to alternate fingers. I can't get used to single finger plucking unless it's real slow. I agree it's better for sound consistency though.

N.H.O.P for the next!

Thanks for this!