Guided Sight Reading Practice for Jazz Bass

"Read This" is used by generous permission from The Jazz Bass Book by John Goldsby (YOU SHOULD GET THIS BOOK!) www.halleonard.com/product/33...
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00:00 Intro
00:50 Sight reading warmup [PLAY WITH ME!]
10:00 Overview and welcome
11:10 Concepts and information review (refresher)
14:40 Developing sight reading skill
20:54 "All the Way" [PLAY WITH ME!]
24:55 "Hello Dolly" [PLAY WITH ME!]
28:30 "Hello Dolly" reading ahead [PLAY WITH ME!]
32:32 Applying your skills
41:46 "Read This" [PLAY WITH ME!]
46:31 "Big Money and the Left Side" [PLAY WITH ME (seriously do it :))]
47:37 Closing thoughts
48:05 "Read This" (play-a-long recording, no bass)

[@davetuttle9701]

Thank you for the great lesson! "Hello Dolly " was a great example where you get comfortable playing 1/4 notes, then a rhythmic embellishment pops up. With that song, if your foot ain't, tapping check your pulse :)

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks for watching and for you message - you’re totally right!

[@Askelad23]

Thank you for this tutorial! I'm trying to get my sight reading skills to be a pro musician and this is a gem. Can't wait for the next videos!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching

[@es5815]

Yea man! Thank you for this is super helpfull i wish there was more videos like this, loved your tune btw :)

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks so much!

[@jarma76]

Thank you for your great tips! Reminded me of my most difficult situation last year. I was called with 2 hours notice to the dress rehearsal of a musical production of Barnum (it was only a school production, but the orchestra was professional musicians). So trying to follow 80 pages of score that I had never played or heard was pretty challenging, coupled with mostly keys with 4 or 5 flats (so not many open strings!) and many changes to the original score that were on a piece of paper. Luckily I made it through, and by the last of the 4 performances I was starting to be comfortable! :-) But what I learnt was: of course they did not expect me to play every note perfectly the first or even the second time, but as I never got totally lost, and was able to follow, that was enough for the conductor. You might feel insecure, but you are probably doing ok especially in difficult circumstances. And as you said, the main thing is to keep going, and not to dwell on missed/wrong notes.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

This is awesome!!! Thanks for sharing and great job with that!

[@jarma76]

​@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki Thanks! I have to say I am fortunate that I have actually started learning music from the reading perspective on the piano as a child, which has kept me in good stead ever since, and I have played the trumpet in concert bands since I was a kid. So I have probably done more sight reading than many bass players usually get to do. :-)

[@bustabass9025]

Great tutorial man. Sight reading is that one skill that personifies the phrase, "use it or lose it." You hit the proverbial nail on the head with this one! 👍🏿

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks so much man!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

What

[@Kuhrvenal]

Once again,thanks Matt.Golden content as usual.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks!

[@esitoris]

Huge work done here and very good presented!! Many thanks!!!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thank you for watching!

[@bassdog10]

Great lesson. Ain’t nothing corny about Hello Dolly. Arvell Shaw was great. I transcribed Arvell’s bass lines from Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy Album. I have your Ray Brown book. That’s some great work you did - that’s intense 💯.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

I bought your Arvell book! Awesome work!! We should have just traded haha. Thanks for watching and for your kind words (and for doing the Arvell book!!!!)

[@bassdog10]

@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki Wow thanks man! My first book there I learned a lot putting it together. 😅 it’s a great resource to teach with as well - core stuff with such great history to go with it. You put a lot of effort in your lessons here on KZbin - really great and I’m sure it’s appreciated by many. 🙏

[@alexanthony62]

So well done and the content is top notch. Adding this to my practice routine. Thanks for sharing your expertise with us Matt! 👍🙏

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks a million for watching!

[@gordonobyrne5242]

Thank Matt, a good practice session - I need to work on reading ahead! 🙂

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks so much for watching!

[@davidbradford1934]

Matt, what a great lesson. Thanks so much for patiently sharing your expertise. All the best for the New Year.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks and all the best for the new year!

[@johndaniel4597]

Bloody good stuff Matt. An excellent, generous exposition of reading skills. A real top pro lesson. Happy New Year old chap! John

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thann you so very much for watching and your kind words!

[@johndaniel4597]

You identify and focus on the essential skills and knowledge required to become a versatile professional player, rather than flash, often irrelevant techniques. Being able to sight read challenging charts under pressure is extremely satisfying. Keep em coming!

[@arniemacdonald4289]

Another great lesson. You are giving me a lot of challenges. Do you have an app/program that you recommend for transcription/notation? I have been using Flat and getting frustrated, but that could also be that it is all news to me. This lesson also highlighted how nicely you generate sheet music. And Happy New Year!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Happy New Year Arnie! Do you mean the program to create sheet music? I’m not familiar with Flat (was that a typo for “Finale”?) anyway that’s what I use - Finale. It’s far from perfect but I’ve been using it for a long time so I’m fairly comfortable with it. Thanks as always for watching and writing man!

[@arniemacdonald4289]

Thanks again, Yes, I meant creating sheet music, and I did mean Flat too. I’ll take a look at Finale. I’d think some young person who understood coding ought to be able to come up with a program.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

@@arniemacdonald4289 ah I see. Well there are lots of others, which are much more user friendly than Finale I think. There’s MuseScore, Dorico, Sibelius, I think the company that makes finale makes a much more lightweight one, there’s Noteflight and more. I don’t know if you use Reddit at all but www.reddit.com/r/composer/s/CwFWYbKx6U is a great thread about it

[@arniemacdonald4289]

Thanks for all of this. After reading the Reddit line I think I will give Muse a shot.

[@dubafeik1784]

great matgerial! thank you! its really hard for me to read bass clef since I play bass clarinet and read the treble clef. is it posible that you upload the pdf transcribed for treble clef?

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks very much! I can do most of it yeah

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

What octave though? Up one or 2 from bass clef?

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

It's up now in the description

[@dubafeik1784]

just one i think @@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki

[@dubafeik1784]

it would be really great for me. thank you@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki

[@johnnywalker5720]

Ron Carter is a bass player. I’m sure it was a slip of the tongue.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks for your comment but I am actually talking about Ron Carter the saxophone player and educator. I mention this and show his picture.