10 Modules including fretboard skills, rhythm studies, important Soloists, tracks and much more!
This course is for bass players who want to improve their improvisational skills. How do you break free from thinking what scales to use? how to structure your solo and how to play good melodic lines? These are questions that every musician seeks the answers. The process of learning improvisation is often compared to studying a language, the ability to understand these concepts and process them can able you to become a more established and highly evolved improviser.
Learn everything you need to Improvise!
Private Lessons – 1:1 In presence & online course
10 Modules
90 Lessons
34 Topics
10 Soloists
20 Classic Solos
Private Online Folder
PDFs/Ebooks
Backing Tracks
Transcriptions
Course Details
Fretboard Skills: What Notes, Positions, Exercises, How to Practice, Triads, Pentatonic Scale & Quartal Approach, Blues scale, Major Scale and Intervals, Diatonic Arpeggios, Major Modes, Diminished Scale, Melodic Minor Scale, Triad Pairs, Patterns Application.
Rhythm Studies: Pulse Combinations, Rhythmic Motifs, Adding Ties, Triplets Development, Sixteen Notes, Rhythmic Phrasing.
Language: Vocabulary, Melodic Approach, Approach System, Use of Motifs.
Execution: Rhythmic Feel, Time Feel, Articulation, Accents and Dynamics.
Improvisation Techniques: Melodic Expression, Paraphrasing, Licks, Chord Tones improvisation, Embellishments, Blues playing development, Tensions, Triad Pairs.
In the Style of: Sound & Feel, Language, Lines, Fills & Phrasing, Steal Like an Artist – Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Jeff Andrews, McCoy Tyner, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Michael Brecker.
Soloing
How to build a solo, Concepts, Enclosures, Ornaments, Phrasing.
Songs Related: Play Alongs
Module 1
Lesson 1: Building a Vocabulary
Lesson 2: Licks & Variations
Lesson 3: How to Practice Scales
Lesson 4: The Major Scale & Modes
Lesson 5: Intervals
Lesson 6: Diatonic Triads
Lesson 7: Scale Sequences (1-4)
Lesson 8: Patterns Application
Lesson 9: In the Style of – Miles Davis
Module 2
Lesson 1: Connecting Chords
Lesson 2: Expanding a Melody
Lesson 3: How to Practice and Tips for Transcriptions
Lesson 4: Soloing Concepts
Lesson 5: How to Analyse a Solo
Lesson 6: The Dorian Scale
Lesson 7: Scale Sequences (5-8)
Lesson 8: Taking advantage of common notes between triads
Lesson 9: In the Style of – Charlie Parker
Module 3
Lesson 1: Phrase Length and Spaces
Lesson 2: Triadic Soloing
Lesson 3: Anticipation & Delaying
Lesson 4: Melodic Development
Lesson 5: The Mixolydian Scale
Lesson 6: Seventh Chords and Arpeggio Exercises
Lesson 7: Alternating diatonic triads with Secondary Dominants
Lesson 8: Scale Sequences (9-12)
Lesson 9: In the Style of – Herbie Hancock
Module 4
Lesson 1: Length and Structuring of a Solo
Lesson 2: The II V Progression
Lesson 3: Upper Structure Triads
Lesson 4: What is a Dominant Diminished scale?
Lesson 5: Diminished Scale over Dominant Chords – Vb9
Lesson 6: Diminished & Dominant Chords relation
Lesson 7: Diminished Scale Sequences (1-6)
Lesson 8: Pulse Combinations
Lesson 9: In the Style of – John Coltrane
Module 5
Lesson 1: Chord Tones Soloing
Lesson 2: Voice Leading
Lesson 3: Major Blues Studies
Lesson 4: Triads in the Diminished Scale
Lesson 5: Diminished Scale on Diminished Chord
Lesson 6: Diminished Scale Sequences (7 – 12)
Lesson 7: Diminished Substitutions
Lesson 8: Adding Ties
Lesson 9: In the Style of – Jeff Andrews
Module 6
Lesson 1: Chord Scale Soloing
Lesson 2: Chromatic approaches
Lesson 3: The Augmented Scale
Lesson 4: Double Time & Half Time
Lesson 5: Minor Blues Studies
Lesson 6: Rhythmic Variety
Lesson 7: Styles & Traditions
Lesson 8: Triplets Development
Lesson 9: In the Style of – Mc Coy Tyner
Module 7
Lesson 1: Articulation
Lesson 2: Bebop Scales
Lesson 3: Developing Speed
Lesson 4: Modes of the Melodic
Lesson 5: Melodic Minor Scale on Chord I
Lesson 6: Melodic Scale on Half Diminished Chords
Lesson 7: Scale Sequences (1-6)
Lesson 8: Sixteen Notes
Lesson 9: In the Style of – Jaco Pastorius
Module 8
Lesson 1: Enclosures
Lesson 2: Soloing Over Standards
Lesson 3: Avoiding Roots
Lesson 4: Melodic Scale on Dominants
Lesson 5: Super Locrian Scale “The Altered Scale”
Lesson 6: Melodic Pentatonic b3 & b6
Lesson 7: Scale Sequences (7-12)
Lesson 8: Syncopation
Lesson 9: In the Style of – Wayne Shorter
Module 9
Lesson 1: Over the Barline
Lesson 2: Chord Subs
Lesson 3: Rhythm Changes Studies
Lesson 4: Triad Pairs
Lesson 5: Time Feel
Lesson 6: Hexatonic Scale
Lesson 7: Rhythmic Motifs
Lesson 8: in the Style of – Pat Metheny
Module 10
Lesson 1: Quartal Playing
Lesson 2: Outside playing
Lesson 3: Pentatonics
Lesson 4: Polychords
Lesson 5: Odd Time Signatures
Lesson 6: Use of Motifs
Lesson 7: Stylistic Approach
Lesson 8: In the Style of – Michael Brecker
