The BEST Bassline Deep Dive: Ray Brown on "Have You Met Miss Jones?"

[A COMMENT: I don’t understand the acoustic phenomenon here, but if you listen through phone speakers, the upper register sounds way out of tune. But with decent headphone or speakers, it should sound much more in tune. I’m frustrated about this]
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00:00 Intro
00:57 Welcome
01:11 Full performance of "Have You Met Miss Jones?"
05:25 Analysis overview
08:00 Discussing the "tool" in measure 2
08:55 Balance of low and high activity
09:34 Measure 24
10:38 Silence in measures 31-32
11:34 Bass melodies in the bridge
12:35 Anticipations in last A section
13:38 Bridge melodies and forward motion
14:46 Ending "tag"
15:30 Closing thoughts

[@bassomatic6055]

I just heard Nick Campbell (LA session bassist) gush about We Take Requests as one of his great influences. Also just recently purchased your book of Ray transcriptions. Looks great and looking forward to getting into it.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thank you for watching, for commenting, and for checking out the book! I'm proud of it and I hope it brings you pleasurable playing and listening!

[@bassdog10]

Great! looking forward to playing through the chart. Another great value at $5 for the chart! Lot's of effort goes into this transcribing and making these videos. Everyone get the chart its worth it all day. 🎶

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thank you so much for your kind words and for watching!

[@toddjohnson5583]

GREAT work Matt!!! I love all your work... and I love sharing your materials with all my students and fellow bass players!!! THANK YOU!!!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thank you so very much Todd!

[@mangiatito]

Cool!! Great job! Another album with wonderful Ray's sound is "The Pool Winners Rides Again!" (Contemporary) with Barney Kessel and Shelly Manne. It’s because of that record and that sound that I decided to go from elettric bass to double bass. I was lucky enough to play once before Ray: I took the record with me and Ray signed it for me.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Oh yes for sure that’s a great one!

[@jarma76]

Great video as always - thank you! Reminds me of some interview with Ray, where he said he was sometimes a little "criticised" for making these more "arranged" recordings with Oscar, after many years of more conventional bebop stuff. I think he said something like, yes it has been great doing those for a long time, but this is something different and has its own role and purpose, or something to that effect. And we are all the happier for these recordings!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thank you! I had not heard this story of him so thank you for sharing too

[@jarma76]

@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki It may have been this one on KZbin, you can find it with "Ray Brown Interview by Monk Rowe - 4/16/2000"

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

@@jarma76 Thanks!

[@arthur3193]

Many thanks for this Fancy lesson. It’s always a great pleasure to see your videos.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks for watching!

[@Oscaraha]

A great video, both the playing and analysis is just on point. A bonus feature for transcripting this album is that its full of shorter tracks that are manageble to memorize. I feel this is a overlooked topic as it can be somewhat daunting to try to memorize tens of choruses of blues, rhythm changes or x standard. I allways go back to this track, D&E and days of wine roses for this specific reason.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks so much and you make an excellent point here! Well said.

[@donkelly36]

Excellent analysis, thx Matt!

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks Don!

[@dtfoel1230]

Coolness factor - off the charts

[@brynnorelse]

Would you suggest memorizing an entire transcription like this? I'm working through Jimmie Blanton's playing on Sepia Panorama, and it's so daunting to remember every line he plays. Obviously you have to memorize some parts in order to properly internalize them. Thanks for the great videos :)

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks for watching and for the question! In *certain* circumstances I’d say it’s really beneficial to memorize a full piece, yeah. For example, I’ve done a few like Ray’s famous “How High the Moon” performance and Ahmad’s “But Not for Me”. I think that the exercise of doing it does really solidify some things for sure. That said, it’s probably overkill to do this more than occasionally. Of course memorizing _parts_ of a performance is really helpful. Is the Sepia Panorama thing an assignment or something? I ask because if you’re not totally psyched about doing it, it’s going to be that much harder. If you’ve just taken it on yourself, and you really don’t feel like doing the whole performance then don’t! Grab what’s helpful and then find something else that really motivates you! I myself didn’t memorize all of Have You Met - but certain sections I did for sure. It’s helped a lot I’d say!

[@mikebordelon7334]

Wow, you're really nailing Ray's gut-string tone! I gotta ask the "question", what strings are those? And thanks for transcribing it.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks for watching! These are Gerold Genssler RW-J strings here.

[@Calcprof]

Dominent 7th to 3rd was a favorite of Scott LaFero

[@v1ntone]

Beautiful. What strings are you using here?

[@v1ntone]

Ah just saw you answered this…. Gerold Genssler RW-J

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

@@v1ntone yes sir!

[@TheBassfresh]

That out of tune in the higher register might be the video to sound latency that occurs?

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

Thanks - I would guess that your guess is as good as any! Though I'm not an expert in this particular kind of thing related to sound - if you are willing to share more thoughts I'd appreciate it

[@TheBassfresh]

@@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki i have noticed when making videos the sound is slightly behing the video, which I attribute to the recording latency...and on occasion it can be a tad out of tune even on a perfectly intonated electric fretted bass, especially w/a room mic as opposed to direct feed, a bit of natural chorus/reverb occurs. btw your pdf set and videos are fantastic for a guy like me transitioning to upright at 67 years old.

[@LearnJazzBasswithMattRybicki]

@@TheBassfresh Ah I see, thanks for the insight and for your kind words!