Truefire Bass Soloing Studies Vol.1 [TUTORiAL]

We're thrilled to welcome Jeff Denson to the family with his first TrueFire course, Bass Soloing Studies Vol. 1! You will likewise be thrilled when you dig into this comprehensive educational experience for electric bass players, which is strictly focused on soloing. Bass Soloing Studies will lead you to a greater understanding of your fingerboard, (i.e. teaching you where the notes are), teach you the concept of relative major and minor and how to use that information, build your chops and fluidity with moving up, down and across the neck and give you strong concepts to use in soloing. Regardless of what style/s of music you play, this course will be invaluable to you as a way to get started soloing on your bass! "In this first module of the series, we'll be examining relative major and minor pentatonic scales and applications for their use in soloing and improvisation. All of the exercises and solo studies in this course will be limited to only the notes the pentatonic scale, so we can really dig deep into it and mine it for its maximum potential." Recording and performing artist, master bass player, and passionate educator Jeff Denson received his Bachelor's of Music degree in Performance from Berklee College of Music, Master of Music in Jazz Studies from Florida State University and his Doctorate of Musical Arts in Contemporary Music Performance from the University of California. Jeff's "bandstand" credentials includes 12 albums as leader/co-leader and over a dozen more as a featured sideman - four with Lee Konitz (including live recordings at the Village Vanguard and Birdland). Over the past 15 years, he has shared the bandstand with an impressive array of musicians including Lee Konitz, Brian Blade, Joshua Redman, Anthony Davis, Mark Dresser, Joe Lovano, Jane Ira Bloom, Kenny Werner, Mimi Fox, Mads Tolling, Dave Douglas, Bob Moses, Giacomo Gates, Howard Alden, Walter Smith III, Warren Wolf, Romain Pilon, Dayna Stephens and many more. "I chose to start with the pentatonic scale because chances are, this is familiar to most of you since it's widely used across many (if not all) styles of music around the world. We'll be exploring all of the pentatonic shapes up and across the neck in six positions, which will allow you to solo without being tied to a root position shape." Jeff organized the course into 3 sections. In the first section, Jeff covers one and two octave pentatonic scales with demonstrations and practice sessions. In the second section, Jeff guides you through six positions for minor and major layouts and then illustrates each with improvisational soloing demonstrations and practice sessions. In the third and final section of the course, Jeff performs and then breaks down 5 soloing performance studies across a variety of keys and feels. Jeff will explain and demonstrate all of the key concepts and approaches along the way. You'll get standard notation and tabs for all of the key studies. Plus, Jeff includes all of the rhythm tracks for you to work with on your own. In addition, you'll be able to loop or slow down any of the videos so that you can work with the lessons at your own pace. Grab your bass and let's solo with Jeff Denson! What you'll learn Navigate fourth position on the fretboard from D to third octave G Improvise using third position major scale Apply position-based improvisation concepts Use all available notes while giving special weight to triad tones Create melodies that highlight the major tonality