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THanks for featuring the work of one of my favorite bass players. The second "quote" you discussed reminds me of Irish Washer Women. It's not exactly ver batim, but it certainly sounds derivative.

Tu swingues !!! La classe !!

Really helpful thank you!!

This is wonderful. What recording is this from? I had no idea Ron played with Red (who I love).

Johannes Wiedenmuller, Orlando LaFleming , Bob Hurst and many others talk about this approach. Just discovered your channel and subscribed; excellent content, thanks!

The hippest, the most swinging, the most melodic bassist ever! he and Kenny Clarke are perfect together, plus I love them with pianist Sal Mosca on the Lee konitz with Marsh album on Atlantic. Every note, is essential, nothing is superfluous!

The hippest, the most swinging, the most melodic bassist ever! he and Kenny Clarke are perfect together, plus I love them with pianist Sal Mosca on the Lee konitz with Marsh album on Atlantic. Every note, is essential, nothing is superfluous!

Oscar is the still the greatest bassist, the most melodic singable bass solos, the perfect bass lines, band leader, composer, and that sound, that gorgeous sound! So relaxed, at any tempo, he is Prez like & Charlie Christian of the bass!

These lines are fire! Thanks for doing the "heavy lifting"

He is my favorite bassist/cellist bar none,ultra melodic swinging eartickling groovy innovative player. I love his Monmartre Blues album and pretty much on every record he was featured on added a unique touch.

I think the lick is the Irish (maybe Scottish?) tune The Kerry Dancers.

That blanton lick is like the If I were a bell intro with more ornamentation

“Resolved fingering” is a genius term

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Beautiful

what u talkin bout man GIRLS LOVE BASS PLAYERS

Can you please do more jazz piece breakdown

mind blown

The OP melody reminds me of some of the melodic ideas Charlie Haden would play during some of his solos. Very folkish.

so fire

Love these, short nice bass thingies

One of my top doods!

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Love this! One of the coolest things I learned checking out OP is how much of an influence he seems to have had on Paul Chambers. I hear a lot of what I thought were PC-isms in his playing, but they're actually OP-isms I guess.

Very cool!

I don't want to say it's aliens, but it's...aliens.

I was expecting something like microtonal quaternote chromatics or third-note chromatics 😀 But why not? This would also be fun to use in a walking bass...

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Yo that transition off the bat. Martin Scorsese over here

Legend

I'm a classical trombonist, and use the metronome when practicing more complex rhythms than just quarter notes. For that having the metronome click every 2/2 is very useful, especially when practicing slowly first. So how you use your metronome should depend on what you are practicing.

Ah nice try. Go away with your nonsense.

Where were you in high schoooool?? This would have been so helpful

Great vid bro! Essential stuff

That "accountability" animation shooting across the screen should be in my day to day life😂

This is so stupid, the thumbnail is going to make people think they don't need a met and set people back just for clickbait.

The bass isn't helping you. You should not use all the strings, but try to play the notes on the 2nd and 4th string or even everything on one string. You have to be ACCOUNTABLE for the sounds you play and not allow the instrument to dictate them

Great advice

I'll try it right now!

This is going to blow up. Very useful advice and contradicts popular thought on metronomes without being contrarian.

Great advice

You should publish a weird Mel bay book full of these exercises

I was understanding the video until u started to talk about the metronome click on the triplets. What is the point of the metronome being on the triplets?

Yooo solid advice!

I would recommend searching up slow metronomes on CZcams for those "click every 2 measures" or "every 4 measures." If you search for a "15 bpm metronome" for your 2 measure practice, you multiply that by the number of quarter notes in the bar (8) and get the actual tempo of 120bpm. If you wanted a click every 4 measures, multiply by 16. Or divide by 8 or 16 for desired result. Jonathan, you forgot to mention the most important part of that type of macro time metronome practice--you learn how to hear melodic phrases. Drummers phrase in 2 measures, 4 measures, and 8 measures most of the time when they play "straight ahead" jazz. Hell, everyone usually phrases in 2, 4, and 8 measures. If everyone else gets hip to feeling the time that way--then the whole band feels TIGHT. Unfortunately, so many jazz pedagogues are stuck teaching the land of 2 and 4--even if that's NOT how they feel time. I would argue that learning how to hear the DOWNBEAT is more important than hearing the 2 and 4 of every measure. Many students--myself included--put the metronome on 2 and 4 and totally lose sense of where each beat of the measure is in the music. Barry Harris used to teach tap 1 and 3 on the right root and 4 on the left--so that DOWNBEAT becomes crystal clear. Drummers do clicks on the subdivisions all the time. I play guitar, but we should ALL be our best inner drummer!

Nice, great tips!