How To Play ‘So What’ On The Bass Guitar (by Miles Davis)
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In this bass guitar lesson, James teach you how to play the popular ” So What ” by Miles Davis. You’ll learn useful walking bass and bass line concepts.
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The eyebrows, gotta luv 'em.
Thank you for this break down on this deceptively simple but hard song ????
As A Jazz player, this lesson is what it's all about. Great Job James.
hi james can i get the pdf for this lesson please
Thank you
I would just say that the "reply" is two notes the piano always played 2 note on the reply as we have for xx years your intimating theres one note, (please correct me if your not 🙂 )great vid though, although I play lower & softer for that "feel" best regards, heres a reference re the reply https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA1-N_N_YFo
Thank you very much for the free pdf
Awesome James ????????
you gave the best review/bass breakdown of this song i've seen yet.
I think you can certainly think of it as being Dorian or even Minor Pentatonic, but I think there’s a lot to be said for Aolean, as well. I think a lot of the chromaticism is suggestive of both. I think it’s all pretty interchangeable and if the notes happen to clash occasionally, you can just call them blue notes.
very good.
Good to see you talk about walking in Dorian. I see a lot of people teach this tune as a Dm scale over the Dm7 (which is not really a Dm7 but more like a Dm7+11+13)
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Thank you for this lesson. I just joined a jazz band and I’m a freshman in high school, learning how to play bass and we are playing this song and I had no idea how simple it was to walk the bass. Your a badass bassist
Nice timing at 6.56… ????????
Great video, tried to get the pdf three times (NO LUCK) I find the score somewhere. Suggest you fix the issue????
Finally, someone who gets the opening right.
have you ever tried to trim your eyebrows?
hi James great lesson thank you however I don't have a computer just phone is there maybe another way I can get this lesson tab tia
Wow…what a lesson James. Very nicely played. Always wanted to play this…going to grab your pdf and have a go.
Thank you
Dope.
Common mistake that you made explained —> watch?v=q_Tld5CoukI
Modal jazz seems easy but it's not. The chords don't tell you what to do. Super easy to get lost. The only thing I would add is what happened in the later playing… throw in triplets as punctuation or some implied ii-V just to give harmonic punctuation. Another trick I used a lot to keep myself and the band on track was to shift octaves in the last 8 bars. That way the 32 bar form gets better outlined. The drummer should go with you!
Thanks a lot for your awesome help
Nice job with this. Enjoyed your lesson. I love Miles & Coltrane, but I am new-to-Bass, (so I need help) – this was really great. oNe LovE from NYC
Good beginner's take on this Miles Davis classic. Paul Chambers' bass line is a lot more detailed. The transcription for this tune clearly identifies his driving force from the first pickup note, and walking all the way to his mesmerizing fade out. This is a good start. Hopefully listening to the original will give bassists an appreciation for what Paul Chambers brought to the music and how he influenced jazz during its greatest period.
Thanks for the lesson very useful and clear
He literally showed me how to do everything EXCEPT PLAY THE DAMN HOOK
One thing you might want to mention is that the intro has a pick up bar at the beginning. So you start counting, the melody begins on the “and” of the first beat of the pick up bar, and the first A section begins when you hit the D right before the bands goes “baah bap”, if that makes any sense ????. The bass call is in the even numbered bars (0 or picku up, 2, etc) and the “baah bap” responses fall in the odd numbered ones(1st, 3rd, etc). Hope that helps to better count it in your head.
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Great lesson!!! Thx
Really nice job my friend
Way to break things down
Good Stuff
Cheers