How to Use Ray Brown Techniques in Your Bass Lines - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
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Matt talks about 3 tools Ray Brown uses to add interest to his walking lines - steal from the master!
00:00 Intro
00:55 "Spinning the Wheels"
03:03 [Play with Me!] Blues bass line using Spinning the Wheels
03:51 "Painting in Tenths"
08:25 [Play with Me!] Blues bass line using Painting in Tenths
09:40 "Clef Diving"
12:08 [Play with Me!] Blues bass line using Clef Diving
12:58 Closing thoughts
When you first started this channel I thought, “boy, that name sounds familiar”, then I saw the Ray Brown book on the music stand 😂
Haha yep!
I love these kinds of videos where idioms from the greats are revealed. Very useful to take these small bits and run them repeatedly through all keys with the hope that these ideas become part of my vocabulary
Glad you can benefit from them!
Great work Matt … your playing and teaching “top shelf”… Love your RB Transcription book!! Thank you for that gift!!!
Thank you so much Todd!
I had no idea you wrote my Ray Brown book until just now!😂 Thanks, these videos and play alongs have been very helpful.
Hahah thanks for watching and getting the book! I hope it's brought you some joy
@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki Absolutely! Any help I can get in art of walking is greatly appreciated!
@@Jjfabbonbass Right on my friend!
excellent lesson and great teacher! Is really helpfull to have this kind of videos algongside my classes to complement my learning, thank you!
Thank you!
Great lesson as always. Interesting examples. The spinning wheels is so cool - so simple but so effective.
Thank you so much for watching as always!
I have the Ray Brown transcription book and the explanation of painting in 10ths helps so much. When I think of “Have You Met Miss Brown”, I often mistake that sound as the melody when it’s just this.
Yessir!
Great timing. I just brought a Ray Brown Trio CD to study.
Great!
Many Thanks !!! Buying now your book.
Thank you!
Just found you channel and I love it! Great style and content. I’ve been a fan of Ray’s for over 40 years.
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks much Matt! This was exactly what I was looking for!
Glad it was helpful!
Totally makes sense to rev on the 5th since there is a pull to the tonic.
Yep!
Great lesson. Quite a bit to digest but am already trying to figure out ways to incorporate these ideas - (including how they might make their way into some of the hobby band's rock covers). Also finding a much-higher-than-usual quality of instruction in the comments. Bravo!
Thanks man! Glad that it made a positive impact for you! Keep swinging brother
muy bueno
loving this channel!
Thanks Trevor!
Great lesson!
Glad you liked it!
Awesome channel; thanks
Glad you enjoy it!
Nice thanks alot
Thanks for watching!
😊 yo uso el programa de band in a box y real band
Thank you sir! Keep up the great work!
Thank you too!
@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki I practice with your videos. It really helps. I was invited to play upright at a jazz jam last Friday at a cafe. It was an amazing experience. The videos helped because they helped me set a regular practice routine. As in they have become part of a revolving weekly study. New video, new study. I also brought out my Ray Brown book and have a new appreciation for it. Thanks again! Dave
Wow that’s amazing man! Great work!!!
Thank you, really appreciate your work great teaching. I transcribed Ray Brown’s CJam blues version with Oscar Peterson. The idea he used in that piece was a Cmaj scale ascendent and descendent played diatonic and in broken third (something that Jaco Pastorius did a lot too), and some chromatic approach. Really interesting stuff.
Thanks for watching! Yeah that is another great line!
Hi Matt ,great lesson fully enjoyed the video.
Any reason why you did not include Ray's famous drops?
Also Ray once said on a video l saw recently "when ending a tune make sure you bring it home" this a comment he made on a tune a bass student was performing.
Maybe this would be a good subject for discussion.
You seem to be a Ray Brown which l am also but is it possible to make a video on the charateristic of the Playing of Paul Chambers and Ron Carter
With modern players like John Patitucci and Christian Mcbride.
Let me leave it there because l could go on n on.
Believe or not but l am an electric bass player but l love the upright may one day l take that leap.
Thanks very much Matt for your time an effort we'll your videos are well presented
@@funkerdelic911 Hey Trevor! Thanks for your comments and for watching! The famous drops...those are coming up in Part 2! (I didn't want to make the video too long). "When ending a tune..." I *think* I might know which video you mean, but do you have a link? And yes, Paul Chambers, Ron Carter definitely coming! John Patitucci and McB I'll have to think about! The list of bass players with that kind of technique is VERY short (And I'm not on that list! 😅) Maybe I could come up with some helpful thoughts nonetheless. Yes, there are so many players to focus on! Thanks for writing man and talk soon
yeah, awesome
Thanks very much!
Right on
Thanks for watching,man
What kind of strings do you have
These are Gerold Gennsler's Sonores strings - the Corax model. He doesn't make them anymore unfortunately
I have a question: When I was studying arranging at Berklee school of music (online) the teacher criticized me because I did not use the root of the chord on the first beat of the bar , I sometimes started the baseline on the third or fifth of the chord. We had a discussion and I said : I do not believe Bassplayers always start on the root of the chord and he said : Yes they do! Now I am looking at your basslines and I have looked at other teachers basslines and I must conclude that Berklee school of music was wrong, you start on Fitfths and thirds too in fact in bar two of the "painting in tenths" bassline you start on the D , the ninth of the chord. Was the teacher at Berklee really wrong or am I just mistaken. By the way I am not a bassist I play the guitar but as you know Guitarist can play walking bass lines too they just don't sound so low! I would appreciate it if you or someone else could enlighten me about this. THANKS!
Hi there and thanks for watching. No, bass players definitely don’t ALWAYS start the measure with the root. Maybe there was some misunderstanding between the teacher and you? Like saying “always” is really different than saying “mostly” or “very often” or “usually” (start with the root). It’s possible they just misspoke - but what a drag to leave you, the student, with this lingering incorrect information! Thanks for your question!
It was no mistake he definitely told me to start every bar with the root of the chord but thanks for the information, I was already breaking his "rule" anyway and now I am going to continue with that since I know I am on the right track here. Thanks for your answer and thanks for the great lessons on how to play bass!@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki
@@erikpors9775 Huh - well yeah, if you want to totally simplify the concept I can see recommending this. But as a teacher I would have tried to explain that this was an oversimplification and just used for simplicity's sake. Real bass players don't do this *always*. Thanks Erik!
Another rule which I'm guessing can be broken is "chord tones on the strong beats" . Specifically 1 and 3. Thoughts on that?
Yes! ALL rules can and should be broken (elegantly :)) Chord tones on 1 and 3 is great place to *start*! One should have a really firm grasp of at least roots on downbeats first before breaking though. You can’t really generally make logical and musical choices if you don’t understand where it’s coming from first
❤ hi am Raúl Rico bass desde México city estudie jazz en México y berkee tome cursos y también tome cursos de armonía dick grove yo tengo un libro de ray Brown de tecnica y además tengo un libro con varias formas de tocar caminando de jazz con diferentes bajista del jazz como lo es paul chambers, ron carter
¡Gracias por ver el vídeo y por contar tu historia! Espero que esto se traduzca bien porque estoy usando el traductor de Google.
@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki ok 👍 yes como puedo bajar tu material
@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki tengo varios libros de jazz de bajista y de improvisar a mi me gusta mucho el caminado de Paul Chambers
@@raulrico8788 ¡Sí, yo también!
@@raulrico8788 ¿Te refieres al PDF? Hay un enlace en la descripción anterior.