White, Scott

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