Free music lessons from berklee college of music slap bass lines joe santerre slap technique. The two dots on the right of the bass clef symbol surround the line on which f pitch is written. Rock bass lines by softcover audio online sheet music. Just like walking with your feet, tyjwalking bass line is one step after the other that takes you somewhere. Whether youre an aspiring or a seasoned bass player, this workshop will help you play with attitude and confidence. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. Joe santerre slap bass lines bass guitar music theory scribd. Here i will show you some examples of essential elements, which are used in funk slap, practical examples with notes, tablatures and studio recorded mp3 audio tracks. Latin or straight8th note bass lines can be embellished by adding an 8th note on the offbeat of beats two and four. Original bass funk arrives in a shimmering 24bit high definition via direct download and adds 260mb of pure bassgristle into your sample archive. Berklee press fingerstyle funk bass lines berklee guide series softcover with cd written by joe santerre learn the art of creating a solid fingerstyle funk bass groove.
The very basics relating mostly to bass playing will be covered here. Berklee jazz composition theory and practice ted pease. A walking bass line is the most common approach to jazz bass playing. Berklee press fingerstyle funk bass lines thomann united. Berklee afrocuban slap bass lines oscar stagnaro berklee press.
Fingerstyle funk paperback common by author joe santerre on. Since that time the techniques have been modified and refined by many other bass greats including louis johnson, bootsy collins, les claypool, flea, stu hamm, mark king, marcus miller, victor wooten. Francis rocco prestia fingerstyle funk bass lesson. How to create bass lines 5 ostinato or riff bass an ostinato is a repeated rhythmicmelodic. Pdf musician maladies in berklee today alumni magazine, 1995. A thesis submitted to the graduate council of texas state university in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of music with a major in music may 2014 committee members. Here you can find fingerstyle funk bass lines by joe santerre shared files. The basic principle for playing latin tunes is the same as playing twobeat bass lines. Download fingerstyle funk bass lines by joe santerre files. Whether you are an aspiring or seasoned bass player, this workshop will help you learn many of the bass lines and styles found in your favorite funk tunes, and inspire you to experiment with your own creations. Whether you are an aspiring or seasoned bass player, this workshop will help you learn many of the bass lines and styles found in your f. Download francis rocco prestia fingerstyle funk bass lesson.
Simply select which bundle of transcriptions you want and whether you want them in tablature or notation they will be. Bass lines from chord symbols constructing bass lines from chord symbols is not only a useful skill but is regarded as essential in most forms of music outside of classical music. Former students include tom hamilton aerosmith, john. The following transcriptions are premium paid for and taken from the books jamiroquai.
So to start, heres the bass tablature for this riffand then ill break things down a little. Berklee press fingerstyle funk bass lines berklee guide. James jamerson from jazz bassist to popular music icon. Nigel wheeler in this fingerstyle guitar lesson, you will learn 8 basic fingerpicking patterns that can be used with 6thstring root chords, with three added variations for 5 th and 4 thstring chord shapes at the end of the lesson for further study for the sake of simplicity, you can think of these 6 thstring chords being open g or e chord shapes well use all open strings in the. Funk studies for the electric bass was the first book to be published on slap bass technique now more than 25 years later, slap it. Take your bass playing to the next level with fingerstyle funk bass lines. I love all your lessons bodgan,very usefl for play over. The 50 walking basslines comprised in this coursebook are aimed at bassists, at double bassists and first and foremost at the jazz enthusiasts among them. Jimi hendrix hey joe bass transcription noel redding. The straight eights should be played evenly but keep the tension until the end of bar 2 and 4. Lines to connect euro and african jazz cultural contributions 2o. Serious with his trio featuring faculty members joe. Here are bass lines for 11 of the decades funkiest hits. This bookcd pack uses actual songs selected from a myriad of rock genres to help in teaching the key elements of rock bass.
Fingerstyle funk bass lines by joe santerre, 9780876390764, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Fingerstyle synergy joe robinson guitar lessons truefire. This is the first step in developing walking bass lines. Currently working on finger funk bass line book for hal leonardberklee press and next solo album. Jazz, anthony villi 86 authored sight reading funk. From jazz bassist to popular music icon by joshua andrew zarbo, b. Exercise 1 demonstrates this with several examples. Without mastering the funk slap technique, a bass guitarist cannot participate in modern music genres and play in a music group. The first level will be to develop bass lines using triad chord tones only and resolve to the next chord root in the most economical way i. So this funk bass groove is build mostly from the notes of an a7 chord, as well as some notes from an a minor pentatonic scale. Whether you are an aspiring or seasoned bass player, this workshop will help you learn many of the bass lines and styles found in your favorite funk.
It is intended for bass guitar teachers instructors. Music book learn the art of creating a solid fingerstyle funk bass groove, with 69 radio riffs, develop your own funk lines, learn the notes, scales and chords needed for funk bass lines, by joe santerre, including cd, written in english. Access courses via the truefire app for windows, mac, ios, tvos, or android. Fingerstyle funk bass lines learn the art of creating a solid fingerstyle funk bass groove. Bass line fever fingerfunk bass pattern behind the. David bruce has a growing reputation as a composer, with commissions from carnegie hall, the san diego symphony and the royal opera house, london.
Free slap bass exercises marks and symbols used in funk. Walking bass guitar is an important comping style for any jazz guitarist to study when learning how to play jazz guitar chords if you are new to playing walking bass guitar lines and want to learn an easy method for learning them, i highly recommend checking out this guide that i published before working through the material in this lesson this article is aimed at the. The term walking is used lescribe the moving feeling that quarter notes create in the bass part. Slap bass pdf, big funk text book slap, ebook with mp3. How to comp walking bass guitar lines like joe pass. Although tablature is the most popular way to read music these days, the ability to at least understand basic music theory and how to read music the old fashion way is not a bad idea for any bass guitar player. The fundamentals of music are pitch and rhythm which are placed in a grid of five lines and four spaces called staff. The symbol of the bass clef is derived from the old german way of writing f. Transcribed by aidan hampson the track listing includes. Learn the art of creating a solid fingerstyle funk bass groove. It contains a gold mine of riffs and lines found in your favorite rock tunes, exercises to help you develop your own rock bass lines, and strategies for locking in with the drummer. Free bass transcription of hey joe by jimi hendrix. Fingerstyle funk bass lines by softcover audio online.
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