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Description: In this jazz bass masterclass, professional bassist Neal Miner discusses and demonstrates some essential concepts for the working jazz bass player. Neal breaks down the important elements of playing the upright bass in a jazz context, including time feel, playing with a drummer, intonation, standard forms, walking lines, soloing, professionalism and more.

Topics Covered: the blues form, common chord substitutions, playing in two, using rhythms to add forward motion, switching between two and four feels, soloing, playing in four, creating simple but effective lines, the bass and drummer relationship, improvising, leaving space, building the tune, composing, leading the band, intonation, tuning the bass, playing scales, shifting between notes, professionalism tips, getting gigs, keeping gigs and more.

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