New article up covering part II of my chord tone series at BassMusicianMagazine.com
The latest issue of BassMusicianMagazine.com is now LIVE! Be sure to check out my latest column: PRACTICING WITH CHORD TONES, PART 2: NAVIGATING CHANGES. It takes up where I left off in my last column and includes exercises and practice strategies designed to help you become more effective in outlining harmony when improvising. Here is a video excerpt from the exercises:
Nice lesson. Sure could use a transcription though.
thanks for checking it out, bob! as these chord tone lessons are more about presenting the actual concept of improvising using chord tones, the videos i have posted are just there to demonstrate examples of what this might sound like. ultimately i don’t want players to memorize any particular phrases or movement, so that’s why i was hesitant to notate them; instead, i want folks to have enough knowledge and awareness of where the chord tones are located all up and down the neck and across the strings over any given chord. i am hoping the videos somewhat demonstrate what i wouldn’t be able to include on a staff, and that is the multiple locations on the fingerboard for each of the chord tones which is so key to this practice technique. maybe in the next installment i can figure out a way to notate some of this stuff, but i presume i’d have to utilize tablature in order to represent specific location… thanks for your post!