Playing Basslines on Piano - Six Common Mistakes

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Pianist, author, and autumn tree cos-player Jeremy Siskind shares some reasons why students' attempts to play basslines on piano sometimes fall flat. Stay tuned for all 6 common mistakes!

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Business?! I'm just tryin' to play jazz piano! 😜 Thanks, Dagadbm!

[@christopherparnis]

Hey Jeremy, it was lovely it meet you for a minute and hear your dynamic performance at the Rex in Toronto yesterday! Great tips here. A thought I’d like to maybe add on from a bassist’s perspective is that while the proper way to treat 2 and 4 (or the ‘hump in the beat’) can be pretty nebulous to talk about, the best way I’ve seen it put is that even in a bassline intended to be entirely legato, 2 and 4 are the ‘most’ legato. The emphasis isn’t in terms of volume but more that beat 2 is played with the intention of leading to beat 3 which is intended as more of a landing point. Same with 4 and 1. It’s part of why strong note choice can give the impression of swinging harder. Now I know that’s an assertion that’s pretty hard to prove but where I believe you can hear it is in where bassists on records leave clear air between notes or put a staccato beat as ornamentation. Especially in earlier recordings before bass gear got easier to make clear strong legato on. It’s almost never interrupting 2 to 3 or 4 to 1, and is instead setting those beats up to contrast even more by being more legato. I think about Israel Crosby or Ray Brown like you mentioned when I think of this. Pardon the rambling, but this stuff gets my brain going! haha

[@JeremySiskind]

Very cool! Thanks for this contribution and great to meet and hear you last night!!!

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DYNAMITE! I've been playing piano and bass for over 50 years and I love the way you broke it all down so nicely!! Bravo!!

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Great idea: the exercise refering to coordination with different rhythm in the right hand!

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Awesome, Chris! I hope you're well!

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@@JeremySiskind I have your Jazz Piano Fundamentals 1 and 2 and Piano solo volume, and they are great, and I have found so many issues I was looking for, partly because I'm a great Peterson and Tatum fan. By the way, in one of your last videos you talked about, I think, melody and melody connecting including target tones and enclosures, a valuable thing for me, cause I'm struggling a little with that at the moment. I thought, that was also an issue in the Jazz piano fundamentals book. But I didn't find it, at least not in that detail, maybe you did it as an extra thing only in video? I find this is too seldomly an issue in piano books and also in workshops, where it is mostly all about scales and chords.

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Great video. Numbers 5 and 6, in particular, demonstrate dynamic baselines.

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Awesome, Don! Thanks for watching!

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Thanks as usual! Great kind of heads-up - things to think about for me (almost a beginning course for my students)! I have a gig this weekend with a vibes player and a singer (no bass or drums) so i'll try to be a dynamo with my L.H. bass!

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Thank you Mr. Torah of Awakening!

[@MarkEisenman]

Great stuff, the range/register aspect is crucial. And not talked about enough.

[@JeremySiskind]

Yes! It's so frustrating hearing pianists play basslines too high. it's so easy to fix! 🤦

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I forgot to pay even a little bit of attention to the bass line in your example, my jaw was dropped at your solo 😮

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😉 Thanks, Mr. Walsh!

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Left hand bass, right hand chords: the Dynamic Duo.

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Hello jeremy Dynamite thanx for your content i'm guitarist i had never consider bassline realy essentiel for guitarist but maybe im wrong?

[@JeremySiskind]

I do know a lot of times when guitarists play basslines, but do whatever your favorite guitarists do! Basslines on guitar have to be a bit higher than on piano...by necessity of the instrument.

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Listen to Joe Pass solo albums.

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