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Scott White

The ABCs of Jazz Bass

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Let Scott White take you through an easily accessible lesson in the basics and not-so-basics of Jazz upright bass playing for students of all levels .

This DVD lesson is a useful primer for the upright bass player who wants to get into jazz or a great reminder for the player who is already steeped in the jazz traditions and techniques. It is a great addition to the Learnroots Catalogue of Instructional DVDs for Bass players!

Topics covered include:

• The Basics of Upright Bass
• Shifting Left Hand Positions
• Right and Left Hand Damping
• Bow Techniques
• Playing with Straight vs. Swing feels
• Triplet Rhythms
• Jazz Theory and the Major Scale (playing with Modes)
• Triads and Arpeggios
• Playing Melodies on the Bass
• Simple Blues Simple and Jazz Blues
• Walking Bass in a “Two” Feel
• Working with a metronome
• Walking down to the vi chord
• Walking from the ii up to the V chord'
• Classic jazz blues ending
• Leading in and out of chords in jazz blues
• Minor blues
• Latin grooves
• The ii V progression
• Autumn Leaves (the Cycle of 5ths)
• Adding in the 7ths of each chord arpeggio
• Walking through chord arpeggios not starting on roots
  
• Right hand tricks and techniques
• and much more!

Scott White is a Canadian bassist, teacher, and music therapist currently residing in Germany. He has performed with many of Canada's most renowned musicians including the Romainiacs and the Bills. Scott has toured much of the world in various bands, acted as music director for the Cirque du Soleil show in Germany, and practised music therapy for years in various hospitals and care facilities. Not to mention workshops, teaching, composing and the many current projects he is involved with, performing around Europe and North America.