Reposting this Octave riff because it generated lots of interest when it first came out.
Many of my students went ahead and learned it- and then sent me their recordings! Many others told me how much it inspired them.
It was a Talking Technique episode, so it was mostly designed to be a challenging technique drill.
Psst, it seems a bit easier than it is.
With TAB, step-by-step instructions and PepTalk!
Killer Octave Riff! [VIDEO]
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Bass Improvisation Tips: Why It Feels Hard & How to Finally Make It Musical I hear a lot of rumbling
Chromatic Grooves and groovin’ in 7/8 (odd meter). We combine these two different gems in this lesson. Get the TAB
Wanna know why I don’t lead with diagonal pentatonic patterns? Every few months, someone asks why the “best” diagonal pentatonic
Groove enthusiast and learning nerd.
As a bassist, I have toured/played/recorded with a variety of rock, Jazz, and funk bands, I have worked with some incredible producers (Keith Olsen) and musicians (Paul Hanson, Muriel Anderson) and I toured Brazil with Stu Hamm as a duo.
As a bass teacher, I have taught at London Bass Day, Gerald Veasley’s Bass Boot Camp, SBL, Truefire, notreble… I even ran my own music school for a few years before gigs took me back on the road.
One thing to know about me is that I teach because I am absolutely fascinated with the learning process. And I am obsessed with helping others realize their musical potential.
When I started playing bass, I excelled very quickly because I had an amazing teacher who taught me using a powerful method. This method transformed my playing so quickly that I passed a bunch of high-level university auditions and even tested out of entire classes at university even though I had been playing for only a very short time.
That’s what, many years later turned into one of my books, co-written with Wolf Wein, called “The Pattern System for the Bass Player”. I created entire systems of learning based on some of these ideas and wrote books and created courses together with Wolf. Our bass books have sold over 30,000 copies and garnered rave reviews.
I started teaching online in 2009 and have embraced technology as a powerful learning tool since then, never losing sight of the importance of providing feedback and personalized guidance to learners.
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