SUMMARY
Write your daily summary last, at the end of the day here… Only one to two sentences. DELETE ALL OF MR. LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS DETAILED ABOVE AFTER COMPLETING THEM
CLASSROOM
Watch How Bass Works (47 minutes)
- organ was the first instrument to play bass notes
- bass took over lead rhythm parts with advancements in tech
LAB
Step 1: Watch How to write Chromatic Notes in Hookpad (some bass lines are based on chromatic scale)
Step 2: Watch 3 ways to use Hookpad’s MIDI drag-drop feature (you can create basslines and more and export to Soundtrap and other DAW – digital audio workstations)
Step 3: Try making a bassline to a chord progression or melody line.
It was pretty easy to import the beats but was harder to make a bass line for it
PRACTICE ROOM
Step 1: Watch How To Add Bass Notes Guitar Strumming Lessons by Tomas Michaud
Step 2: Download the guitar TABS for his exercise (PDF)
Step 3: Practice one of the exercises
generally easy once I got the rhythms down
Profile in Excellence
- Check out these two videos about amazing bass player Carol Kaye
Profile in Excellence
- Check out these videos about the best bass player, ever, James Jamerson
- What really made James Jamerson so great?
- Visual of James Jamerson’s bass line for the Stevie Wonder song –For Once In My LifeScreenshot from Vulf at YouTube
OUTSIDE / JOURNAL / IDEAS
Choice 1: Explore Carol Kaye and James Jamerson’s Profiles in Excellent. These are two bass players are credited with creating some of the best bass lines! Then go for a walk and think of the funky work they created.
Choice 2: Flip through the Quizlet on Bass Composition Techniques flashcards a couple times.
After playing with Quizlet, go for a walk and think about bass lines. Think of songs that have great basslines. When you are back from your walk, you might want to research more about the notes that make those basslines stand out?
Would? Alice in Chains – Mike star does an open to second fret hammer on which stands out from the rest of the song along with playing solo at the start.
Right in Two Tool – Jason Christopher uses a whammy at the start of the song which really stood out to me. He also uses slides to add a shift sound
Anesthesia Metallica – Isn’t really a bassline but cliff burton uses a wah pedal that is rare to see be used by bassists
STUDIO
Play around with playing the low E string (6th string on the top of the neck) on your guitar. Create a simple three note-ish bassline. Get funky with it. Try different plucking tempos to great the groove. You can even try playing Smoke on the Water
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CONTROL ROOM
Record the bass line you developed in the studio.
The recording was good but the volume was very quiet after recorded. So i restarted the studio and it was loud enough.
WHAT I LEARNED and PROBLEMS I SOLVED
DAILY ACTIVITY EVALUATION
- Give feedback on the class Content and Process
- Participation will be part of your leadership project due at the end of the course
- Fill in the Daily Activity Evaluation