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- Contents -

PREFACE

CHAPTER 1. DEVELOPING YOUR JAZZ BASS CONCEPT
The 4-to-1 Concept
Note Resolution
Final Thoughts

CHAPTER 2. BUILDING BASS LINES
Choosing Notes
Chord Symbols
Bass Lines from Chord Scales
   Chords and Modes
Rhythmic Feel
   The "Two" Feel
   ”Fall Foliage”
   "Take a Subway”
   ”Quiet as the Early Light”
   "Island of Tom"
   ”Apple Honey”
   "Señor Paulo"
   Four Feel and Walking Bass
   ”Spare Apple Parts"

CHAPTER 3. THE NOTES BETWEEN THE NOTES
Scalar Bass Lines
Chromatic Passing Tones
Blues with Scale and Chromatic Approach Notes
Cycle V Practice
Common Chord Tone Approaches

CHAPTER 4. CHORD PROGRESSIONS AND WALKING BASS
II V Blues
   ”Alice in Azure”
   "Cobalt Alicia"
   SubV7
   "Alice in Blueland"
Post-Bop
   "Big Shoes"
   ”Giant Loops"
   ”Isotoner”
Displacing the Root
   "Sky Groove"
   "Discover a New Infant"
   G Blues
   ”Double Trouble”
Cycle V Common Chord Progression Drill
Harmonic Loops: Root Motion of Minor Thirds and Half-Steps

CHAPTER 5. ORNAMENTS, ARTICULATIONS, AND RHYTHMIC EMBELLISHMENTS
Pull-Offs, Drops, Rakes
Rhythmic Embellishments
Hammer-On

CHAPTER 6. VAMPS, PEDAL POINTS, GROOVES, AND FEELS
Vamps
   "Leave Your Boots at the Door"
   ”Lethal José"
   ”Totally Azure"
   ”1, 5, 9”
   "Rural Tune"
   "Here's to Dad"
Vamps in Different Meters
   "Funky Bop"
Pedal Point
   Pedal Point Exercises
   "On Verdant Flipper Avenue"
   "Many Evening Eyes"
Grooves
   New Orleans Style "Second Line" Groove
   12/8 Grooves
   "Hot Season"
   ”Mail Order Amour"
   ”Anticipation at the Photo Store"

CHAPTER 7. SOLO PLAYING
Hand Position and Soloing
   Acoustic
   Electric
Bass-Line Solos
   ”Indiana Lee”
   "Hot Home"
   Symmetrical Diminished Scale
   ”Important Events”
Melodic Solos
Rhythmic Articulations
Articulations
Bebop Ideas for Soloing
   ”Fall Foliage”
   ”My Whole Life”
   Phrase Variations
   ”Thinking About Someone”
   ”Hot Season” Solo
Guidelines for Transcribing
What Is Improvisation in Music?

AFTERWORD: GOOD NEWS/GOOD NEWS
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INDEX