It also provides them with historical bass lines by herself. The electric bass sounds better if it is a little sharp rather than a little flat or even exactly in tune. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. As with the double bass, which fingers you use to pluck the string makes a big difference in sound and feel. Latin or straight8th note bass lines can be embellished by adding an 8th note on the offbeat of beats two and four. Meet carol kaye, the unsung bassist behind your favorite 60s hits. This book includes all bass beginners should learn. Music, jazz, electric bass, bass, guitar, jazz guitar, bass guitar. How to play the electric bass and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Bass fwgerwg sth most notes the electric bass may played in higher using a different finger different string. The bass lines in the section are for you to learn, memorize, and play in a real live playing situation.
She is an excellent instructor, a living music legend, and it is a crime she wasnt inducted into the rocknroll hall of fame in the first group of sidemen even though shes a sidewoman inductees. The four strings of a bass are g, d, a, and e, from the highest pitched to the lowest pitched. When it comes to playing electric bass, there are lessons online aplenty. I suspect many of her classic lines came from charts, which is not to minimize her brilliance as a player.
Playing styles of james jamerson, rocco prestia, tommy cogbill, duck dunn, bernard odum, david hood, bob babbitt george porter jr. How to learn for free archives open culture archive. How to play the electric bass includes electric bass. Carol kaye nee smith, born march 24, 1935 is an american musician. Carol was one of the core group of anonymous studio musicians who lent her unique styles of studio guitar and electric bass playing to many of the hits recorded by such popular artists like the beach boys, ray charles, therighteous bros. How to play the electric bass classic first book has poprockfunksoulblues even some jazz along with little green apples, i dont need no doctor, feelin alright etc. One of the legend bassists, carol kaye, wrote a great textbook of electric bass to be justly styled classic. How to create bass lines 5 ostinato or riff bass an ostinato is a repeated rhythmicmelodic. Carol kaye how to play electric bass line 1 youtube. I had the privilege of taking private bass lessons with carol kaye about 15 years ago. Plectrum technique for bass guitar clayton, stuart.
This book teaches everything you need to know to create great bass lines. And what most popular music fans even those who might be aware of kayes prolific electric bass career might not know is that she played guitar acoustic and electric on many hit songs some dating from the late 50s before she settled into the firstcall position for electric bassists on the l. Playing it will help teach you where all the notes are through correct finger spacing play this scale and all other scales in the following man ner. Puffin on a cloud beatnuts a day at the races jurassic 5. Carol kaye has 15 books on goodreads with 207 ratings. How carol kaye became the most prolific session musician in history. Im not a bass player, but i would imagine this lp would be dope to cop some new bass skills. As a bass player, having worked side by side with carol kaye on numerous movie and tv calls and recording sessions, i have come to know how great she is on. If your sampling the metronome wont make a big differance, if your listening dont get it for solely that reason. When rhonda shoots to number one, the beach boys are heralded for their brilliant musicianship. These blues bass lines are like having a one chorus lick that you can rely on to always sound good when you play it. They include glen campbell, hal blaine, larry knechtel, don randi and ms. Always double check your tuning harmonically on 5th and 7th frets. He shows how to break down a lick, play in time, lock in with the drums, and adapt your bass playing to different styles, including country and heavy metal.
For example, when you do steps 1, 2, or 3 above, you are creating the most basic kinds of ostinato. And so paul mccartney once said of carol kayes bass technique without, apparently, knowing that it was her talent and her interpretation of wilsons compositions he was admiring. Carol kaye electric bass lines nro 1 free download as pdf file. The way she approaches playing music and the way her contemporaries approached playing music, is a dying art. Books by carol kaye author of how to play the electric bass. Plectrum technique for bass guitar is a complete method for learning to play the bass guitar with a plectrum. Was first call on elecric bass from 1964 through about 1974, but played electric bass on all sessions from 1963 through last thing i did, the theme for soap tv series 1981. Carol kaye electric bass lines documents steve stevens, guitars, line. Carol kayes book on the electric bass plus bass lines 1 and 2 as an ebook bundle.
For carol kaye, the mostrecorded bassist in history, with upwards of 10,000 sessions to her credit, the very idea of picking the highlights of her career is daunting, to say the least. Credit allows you to download with unlimited speed. The main goal of this book is to introduce, reinforce, and provide musical applications of the major and minor. Carol kaye how to play the electric bass pdf torrent 2017. Paul chambers played all his bebop lines with one finger only. Carol kaye, studio musician, writer, publisher and educator of famous bassists.
I named my first bass lines book, how to play the electric bass. Pentatonics on electric bass ebookpdf version pentatonics on electric bass was written to provide a focused and musically satisfying approach for electric bassists to learn the major and minor pentatonic scales in all 12 keys. It contains 201 exercises plus four study pieces and is suitable for beginners to the technique as well as highly accomplished players. All electric bass notes sound one loner than written. D, g may be tuned using d pitch pipe or by sounding he on a carefully adjust the correct tuning key until the string matches the. Drilling arpeggios the first, third and fifth note of a chord, often also going up to the octave of the root is a good way to start practicing bass and learn the fundamentals that go into strong, supportive bass lines. Walking bass line theory basicspart 1by chris fitzgerald. Legendary studio musician carol kaye presents 150 free tips for. How to play the electric bass pdf free download epdf. Carol played so many amazing bass lines, including many of those on the beach boys pet sounds, but i wonder how many of them were written by her. She is a tremendous session musician who is a great reader. Bass guitar now lets apply this to the bass guitar. See more ideas about guitar lessons, playing guitar and guitar.
I have been enriched and inspired studying her material. Meet carol kaye, the unsung bassist behind your favorite. Billy has played bass on dozens of records from david lee roth to mr. Piano comping, acoustic guitar rhythm, double bass and drum thanks for using my backing tracks.
An easytouse, stepbystep approach to basic theory is given as a foundation, and then the essential stylesand many styles within each styleare explored from the bass point of view. It was called the fender bass, listed as such in the musicians union directories all over, in the 60s. Carol kaye electric bass method free download as pdf file. Have you met miss jones backing track jazz swing tempo. Carol kaye is paul mccartneys favorite bass player, he.
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