Bossa Nova Bass Lines A Beginners Guide

[@talkingbasslessons]

Lesson Material and Backing Track Available Here: bit.ly/2Ona7Qo

[@spiderslip]

really good words in there "try and play it like your in the audience." That's the whole key to playing music.

[@talkingbasslessons]

Thanks. It's key to hearing any arrangement as a whole. Anyone writing or arranging music or working as a bandleader instinctively does this anyway. When I led bands, I didn't even think about bass. I listened to everything and wanted to hear it like an audience member. After all, they are the one's listening!

[@Nikosi9]

@@talkingbasslessons And paying...

[@carnevale94]

As a Brazilian and a bass player that have been around your channel for a long time, I am not but amazingly pleased by your lesson.

[@the_doomcliff]

Wow, this is gold. A very good introduction for me! I've started going to a bar with life jams, and the guys there play bossa nova occasionally, one day I'm gonna bring my bass and play along. Thank you very much!!

[@jensbomholt4529]

Great lesson: from simple basics to all sorts of wonderful possibilities. I came here becaus my pedal provides not only metronome, but all kinds of rhythms. When I noodled around to the bossa rhythm, I wondered how to use this rhythm in the "correct" way. Your lesson came up on the search: GREAT lesson! I might spend many days and even weeks just to get it all into my system. Thank you so much for taking me into Bossa territory.

[@djrbaker1]

I'm Brazilian and I'm learning to play bossa here lol

[@pablocavalcante738]

Me too akakkakaka

[@DmitryIsc199]

HOW? it's in your blood, isn't it? xD

[@patrickhagen563]

Wow, you really packed so much in 25 minutes. Really helpful and fun!

[@johndarksouls1943]

Amazing lesson, not the first i tried but here i really get it ! i love how you explain the wait you count it!

[@snugtrees8537]

Just like a good bass line, you go from the simplest idea to most complex with ease

[@kahwigulum]

I appreciate these longer videos with a more complete description of each example.

[@RC32Smiths01]

Amazing lessons here man! Don't know much about Bossa Nova music, so this is definitely the place to start! Cheers!

[@ruthlessadmin]

Wish I saw this about 12 hours ago. Had to improvise some bossa nova today and had no clue what I was doing lol

[@nathandesmond3641]

Want to thank you for all the free lessions on your website, I'm a beginner and only knew a few songs and never knew where to start but your website helped me so much thank you again!!!!!

[@eugene-d]

Amazing! Was able to record my first bossa nova line right after viewing! Thanks!

[@hearpatplay]

Great lesson, thank you for sharing. It's amazing just how many different ways there are to play a root-fifth bassline when you move those notes around the measure.

[@kikolucesrojas]

im seeing this video for one week over and over. Great lesson.

[@natewinslow]

This is a great integration of the Chord Tones course and the Walking Bass course. Thanks for all the work Mark.

[@slapmyfunkybass]

Bossa is an amazing style.

[@adamkrayevsky4563]

Well done Mark. I need you to explain every music style this way. Please.

[@sergiobalbi9200]

Extremely beatiful bass guitar!

[@bartcrawford8462]

quite good, mate! Simple and accurate; I like the choices! Best, Bart

[@Fretliner]

Perfect fifths, perfect lesson, thank you

[@asansone57]

Great lesson for all levels of bass players!

[@Kane-ez]

Hi mark great video

[@poletteh.2803]

Thanks for the lesson 🖤

[@andrewgleeson]

So good! Thanks for sharing!

[@bluejazzcat]

Obrigado (thank you)!! Cheers from Brazil! Love you lessons!

[@ismaelnin8960]

Gracias

[@florijanstamenkovic]

I like your approach very much! I'm working on my harmony and melodic line knowledge for a while now and I'm impressed how well you merge very basic with a bit more advanced concepts, and all of it very practical and approachable. Looking forward to looking at more of your videos! Thank you!

[@Rody_Ioni]

Awesome tutorial, thanks!

[@kikolucesrojas]

How do you set up the bass to get that up right Sound?

[@geraldjacobs7824]

This is a great video. I have a large but specific list of ideas to practice to add into my bass repertoire. Thanks for the help and being awesome! ✌️

[@WisdomTeachings]

Nice, cool and relaxed. Just what I like!

[@jeromeclemente3672]

Bossa Nova is cool.

[@MrMewsique]

This was a really good video. Thank you. Well done

[@AlexeyPismenskiy]

Great lesson as usual, thanks Mark!

[@mattwarrenmusic]

Another great lesson! Cheers Mark 👍

[@jazzbrew68]

Great lesson! Nordy mute sounds great!

[@AugustineMotiar]

Cool lesson. I like the 2 feel techniques.

[@INTJ24]

This dude is helpful

[@MyFOrdmL8]

Great wee session Mark.. thanks.

[@talkingbasslessons]

Cheers BigAl

[@sgawiayadi7749]

J adore ❤❤

[@noname-fx9eu]

Can you do a battle with davie 504?

[@talkingbasslessons]

Ha ha. That'd be hilarious.

[@talkingbasslessons]

To be fair, he's not really a bass player. He's more of a 'KZbinr'. He's good at what he does though.

[@alexanderheintz6834]

All bass players need a master

[@noname-fx9eu]

@@TCharlieA he has qualites, i guess he s not a bass teacher. he must be lacking

[@a-maize-zing]

This man really said Davie isn't a bass player... I'm gonna call the police

[@glenn105]

Anyone who’s a fan of Stone Temple Pilots knows Robert & Dean Deleo wrote much of the bands original music on bossanova…

[@eliascorrea8573]

Olá aqui do Brasil ! :))) This is going to be awesome Mark

[@jeanwill69]

Great lesson. Maybe just one question about the notation : not sure about the patern D7(b9) and C7(b9) Is it playing like a normal C7 ? Thanks

[@AtesGoral]

This was... efficient.

[@revel7334]

BNB - Bossa Nova Brasil !

[@AlexeyPismenskiy]

Your bass sounds almost like an Upright. You use flat wounds, and something to mute your strings?

[@jacobkleiman7466]

15:20

[@rickkillian2378]

What is that thing on the strings down by the bridge?

[@dannyhowell3184]

Rick Killian it’s a clip on mute.

[@talkingbasslessons]

NordyMute. I did a review a few lessons ago

[@eatass5627]

Amy winehouse taught me this song

[@williamking5231]

Song For My Father Horace Silver ?

[@michael350p6]

Bossa nova ≠ Elevator music

[@nicholas1460]

The bass guitar could be louder.

[@talkingbasslessons]

Lol. It's actually insanely loud. You're probably watching on a phone where all the low end disappears. You'll never hear deep bass tone on a mobile device or laptop. Listen on proper speakers or headphones and you'll realise how loud the bass is in the mix

[@dentoncrimescene]

It's fine bro.

[@kevincalhoun1402]

Nicholas, try headphones. You can pretty much -only- hear the bass then.

[@kahwigulum]

The audio on this vid is very good.

[@nicholas1460]

@@talkingbasslessons Yes ... headphones brings out the bass.

[@michaelkiese7794]

Doing the “a-one, a-two” rhythm pattern the entire time is very jarring. Brazilian music is very syncopated with anticipations. If everybody in the rhythm section is anticipating and syncopating, it becomes too busy. It starts sounding like Americans playing bossa nova, instead of Brazilians playing bossa nova. To get the feel right, the bass really needs to be solid and play downbeats, that way you have a solid foundation which the syncopated patterns can juxtapose against. At most, bass players should do the “a-one, a-two” rhythm no more than 10-15% of the time. They can still anticipate, but hold out the quarter notes. If everybody plays busy and syncopated, then it loses that happy go lucky laid back Brazilian feel. Playing like this dude will definitely get you through the gig, and there is nothing wrong with it per se. But he’s playing Brazilian music with a western point of view.

[@danblanchard6739]

Please turn up you bass as i cant even hear it most of the time

[@talkingbasslessons]

The bass is almost too loud in the mix. I suspect you're watching on a mobile device. Listen on speakers or headphones and you'll probably want me to turn the bass down. This isn't a style where you would crank the mids or add distortion to compensate and make it audible on a phone. The strings are muted to get more of a thumping deep tone. That will never translate well on a phone. This is the problem with the modern 'norm' of people listening to things on tiny speakers that won't produce any frequencies below 200hz

[@dentoncrimescene]

It's fine bro.

[@kahwigulum]

Audio on this vid is really good. This channel always has great sound. Better than most other teachers, tbh.