Top Tips for Gypsy Jazz Bass Lines - Double Bass Lesson
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Join Olivier Babaz as he shares his top tips to play gypsy jazz bass lines that are simple but effective. Using just a few notes and devices, Olivier teaches us how to create these bass lines playing both pizzicato and arco. Sam Dunn joins him on the guitar to help him demonstrate.
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I haven't played double bass in a long time, but this inspires me to pick it up again. Love that tone!
I'd like to also recommend people check out to some of my favorite bassists in the genre, including William Brunard (bassist with too many GJ artists to list), Jérémie Arranger (with Adrien Moignard and many others), Diego Imbert (Birelli), and Nonnie Rosenberg (Rosenberg trio).
Thanks for the heads up on those recommendations.
this is amazing, I love Gypsy Jazz but there's not a lot of information in how to play it on the double bass. Have Oliver come back and do a video on how to solo/improvise over Gypsy Jazz? 😎
Olivier gets such great tone with the bow. Very inspiring
I love the sound of this bass, deep and articulate without to much sustain. What strings do you use?
They are Thomastik Spiocore Weich. 👍
What Edgar Meyer has done over the years in bringing more of the bow into folk & bluegrass, I feel Olivier has done for jazz; exciting to see & learn from!
Fantastic and informative work from both musicians and the members of discover double bass!! Also that arco was just beautiful!
Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it! :-)
I think whether a strong mute interfering with the guitar part totally depends on said guitar part. I like the sound of strong mutes in between notes on the bass in Gypsy music.
Love you bow work, Olivier
Love the bowing!
Thank you. Great Tips for Bass Players.
it would be really interesting to know technicques of other popular and folk genres, hoping for other videos like that
Great point and we do plan to cover more styles like these in the future 👍
Bravo et Merci !
Super. Merci.
Top quality musician
GOLD
That was an awesome snippet! One question I had: As a general rule, when playing melodic fills between changes would you play scale notes of the current chord you are on or notes of the chord you are transitioning to?
As a general rule it's the chord you are on.
great tips!
Thanks for watching 🙏🏻
I dont even play double blass i just love to watch this 😅
Well done ! Cheers!! ;-)!
Thank you!
that bow hold is the sh*t for early jazz/tuba sound!!! surprised I haven't really seen that before..is that something you came up with?
Hi, somebody can explain me what's he doing when he finishes an example? Looks like a kind of soft muting
Yes, just resting a finger against the string at the bridge to mute the string in a smooth and gradual way, rather than just stopping the note dead.
🙏👌
What is the chord progression here?
It’s the chord changes to All of Me. 👍
@@DiscoverDoubleBass Thank you for the reply!
I'm trying to learn both strumming and progressions by myself with my ukulele.
So, this kind of videos very influencing. Thanks for the video!
@@EmrecanAlptekin that’s awesome. Best of luck with all your music 🎶👏👏👏
nice french accent :)
You can really tell you're not a vintage music specialist. I don't mean that in an insulting way. However, I think that when it comes to old playing techniques, you should invite specialists.
1. you are trying to "imitate" a sound with a "right hand technique" of the jazz bassists of the 50s. This will never work. The bassists of the 20's to 40's, and partly still into the 50's (e.g. in Western Swing or Rockabilly) had a pizzicato- away from the fingerboard, often only with two fingers- .look at ALL the old soundis!
2. without gut strings you will never get the sound, some " gut- alike" come close- but the real thing is without exception "gut".
I could say thousands of things about vintage double bass, even write a book, what was shown here is unfortunately very very far from the vintage bass sound. This is not just about an authentic Jango sound but about an entire era. You must not try to "imitate" the old music superficially but study in the smallest detail why the sound was so different then than for example in the cool jazz era. Listen to a lot of "Big Band Bounce" or also Slam Steward up to even Oscar Pettiford. Ray Brown would already be much too modern.
Thanks for your feedback.
In the introduction to this video Olivier does say that he’s not a specialist and this is his personal approach.
You raise some interesting topics and if we do a video on original techniques and style analysis in future I’m sure we will address them.