Exploring Carol Kaye's Insights: Using Chord Tones for Bass Players (No.259)

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Published 2024-05-18
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Delve into the wisdom of legendary bassist Carol Kaye as I dissect her invaluable insights on utilising chord tones for bass players. In this in-depth analysis, I unravel the valuable information in Carol Kaye's interview and explore her innovative approach to crafting memorable and harmonically rich bass parts.

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Timestamp:
0:00 Exploring Carol Kaye's Insights: Using Chord Tones for Bass Players
1:10 Using electric bass for Jazz & chordal notes
3:02 Exercise 1: Arpeggios
4:37 Moving licks up 3 frets
5:36 Exercise 2: Moving licks around
6:13 Why chord tones are so important
7:49 Exercise 3: Chromatic arpeggios
9:03 Using scales in Jazz is a newer concept
9:50 Diminished scale
10:07 Exercise 4: Diminished Pattern
11:07 Rock players loves scales & modes!

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All Comments (21)
  • @AlexiKaruna
    Thank you Greg, this is interesting food for thought. I'd assumed scale tones was how I'd improve playing walking lines but I'm curious to try applying this instead, as it seems there may be a point to focusing on the chord tones as targets and then just let whatever passing tones get added as is aesthetically convenient.
  • @TheMaartian
    Excellent point about practicing chordal note arpeggios vs scale note arpeggios. Worth the price of admission! Great lesson! Thanks for sharing.
  • @ruthkearin3721
    That was fascinating. Thanks Greg. I’m a big fan of Carol Kaye and appreciate you spending the time to explain about jazz playing.
  • @carlodave9
    Very cool to interpret her for us semi-noobs. She’s so damn accomplished that much of what she says & plays sails over my head. Good stuff!
  • @jroc2201
    Yeah,she's old school, very cool, very interesting, super good grasp of the fundamentals, the basics, thats where the genius is, in the simplicity
  • @stuartmoore6310
    Great breakdown of her video. Those PDFs are like gold for me cuz I'm more of a visual learner, I don't just pick that up by ear. Both tabs and notation.👍👍
  • @ravingcyclist624
    Carol Kaye is amazing! She has a website where you can purchase training manuals and CDs.
  • @gretelstonebridge2323
    I discovered Carol when researching how to play "I'm a Believer". I found her fascinating. What I am finding is that I get to understand something new but never a whole light bulb moment. It is something I need to keep dipping into and experimenting. Thank you Greg
  • @TPT1126
    I'm just a beginner--not quite 1 yr of lessons. In a bass fb group I've seen a lot of advice to beginners to play a lot of scales. I've never seen the point of that, but wondered if I should do it anyway. My goal has always been to play Blues and use walking bass lines as much as possible. Great to see Carol Kaye validate my feelings about scales!
  • @drintro
    I never realized what a monster she was until I started learning bass. Its really some of the most interesting parts of music from the period of time when she was doing so much of the session work. I'm adding some of this to my practice sessions for sure.
  • @StevenDoyleLuke
    Love the pick play . . . just love her playing!! (Great Info, thank you!)