Lead Sheet Navigation for Bass Players /// Scotts Bass Lessons
Knowing how to demystify lead sheets when you first look at them is a SUPER valuable skill that will last you a lifetime…
The gag is, what do you look at first?…
Key signature? Form? Common Chordal Movements (and why should you be looking for these?!)? Plus… everything else that’s going on. Without a ‘road map’ it can be really overwhelming and confusing if you don’t know where to start.
In this lesson I’m going to show you the top 4 things you should look out for, plus the exact order you should use when first looking at a lead sheet.
Whether you’re already using lead sheets or you don’t even know what they are, this lesson is going to be great for you!
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Originally posted by UCWTj3vCqkQIsrTGSm4kM34g at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRv-BuFNdoE
The 2-5-1 in the last 4 bars isn't really a 2-5-1. A7b5 is acting as a a diminished passing chord for the V-I cadence.
I hate flats
You're a great tutor Scott. I'd just like to bring to your attention that you often use "He" when referring to an example musician. It would be great to expand your vocabulary as your audience, and most particularly musicians, are not all dudes! cheers.
I really enjoy your teaching when you 'behave'….in a normal fashion – like a straight serious teacher.
Because sometimes you do 'act the fool', so to speak…in a lot of your videos. (No offence meant!)
Great video!!
Only one question:
in all four lines, the “IV” at the beginning of the line means that that it is the fourth step seen from the chord of the last bar of that line. Only in line number two (line number 3 seen from the bottom of the page) the “IV” refers to the chord before, which is Ab, (as Db is the fourth step of the Ab scale) and not to the chord at the end of the line (C).
Why is that? Would be great to understand that! 🙂
This helped me out so much! Thank you!
C minor is a three cord not a 6
F minor would be a 6 C minor is a 3
It’s 251 but you were singing 261
The first step should be to make sure you know the clef sign. In your example you have two different clefs on the same sheet. The player may not know both.
Aren't 1 4 5 major and the rest minor In the roman numerals?
why would anyone dislike this?
How do we understand the 1 4 1 6 into key change ? Like how is the first chord linked to the key change that follows it?
Scotty!! This is gold, been tackling these standards lately and this is just gold, more for me to think about ????
wait so do you play the chords???
Great lesson although if you have to show someone how to count measures, they probably shouldn't be here. Regarding bass lines, I was taught by a great jazz keyboardist to look at ways to "smooth your lines out", when looking at a chart. You should know your tri-tone subs and should be able to invert in any given lines. Knowing when to walk should be second nature as well as keeping good time and the use of dynamics……
this lesson is very important, because i have notice, some teachers really skip this detail and you get hit when you start with a band.
this lesson is VERY VERY IMPORTANT…and again, THANK YOU SCOTT and for those who made there comment . .I have a lots of teachers in one video lesson…
SUPER DUPER GREAT !!! . .i'm HONORED !!
super great lesson including to all those who made there comment…THANK YOU GUYS AND THANK YOU SCOTT !!
Well done Scott….. The next class should be applying this lesson to the bass.
Great lesson but what confuses me is how fo you know what key its in when filling the gaps if there is a A7 chord after a 2 5 1 in C how do you know it is in the key of C or A? Sorry if this is confusing im not to familar
Scott is such a great teacher!
Some good stuff.
Cminor is the iii chord of Ab right, not vi which if F right?
To remember II-V-I, sing the "I'll be there" part of the chorus of Reach Out I'll Be There by those nice Four Tops. 😉
… which is what I heard in my brain every time you sang "Two-five-one, in the video, Scott! LOL!
227 sessions at about $33K income and I never had to know this shit – go figure.
Hello Scott,
Learning a lot from you channel great ???? job. I'm still learning to train my ears at the moment, and was wondering if you could help me with the bass line for in The Closet (Club Mix) by Michael Jackson. I love ❤️ the bass line in it and would to learn it. I'm a 4 string bass player and would like to learn it by playing with my fingers. If anyone can play this song I know you can.
Scott, why don't you designate a minor 2 chord with lower case Roman numerals? That is standard… isn't it?
One thing I noticed about the progression. Another way to look at it (at least as far as this tune/section is considered) is that in the key of F minor (relative to Ab major)the chord changes are moving in the cycle of fourths. So you can know that then next chord will be a fourth above the chord you are currently playing. Of course you could move down an a fufth and you'll land on the same correct change. With my way, you dont have to look at it as a bunch of implied key changes. I'm not challenging the effectiveness of your way of analizing this chart, because you're obviously spot on. I'm only pointing out an observation I made whilst looking over the chart.
Here is a great Bass Ebook that teaches bassists how to move through the chord progressions! You will also learn passing tones and approach notes and all of the things bassists need to know! https://payhip.com/b/6nR4
You've just calmed my nerves for my next RGT grade exam. This is definitely one of the most useful guides I have come across for dealing with charts. Excellent stuff Scott and thanks. (PS please keep it coming)
Hi Scott, you're using a Wacom?
Woah woah woah… I just noticed that all the II V I's add up to make chords! Bb, D, F and A… Eb, G, Bb and D… Ab, C, Eb and G… They really are all linked somehow!
I think I'm going to wait until I graduate college before paying for the academy so that I can dedicate just as much time I do on college on learning music theory. By then the academy will be 10 times more better :P.
I know my music theory, but can you give some specific examples of good bass-lines over common chord movements? I want to do better than just arpeggiating the chord tones.
Great to see you. I was afraid you were sick.
So is this course more of how to read sheet music or how to play with the chords and style with what the music hands to you? I'd prefer the latter being that chords were first shoved in my face last year, and I've gotten decent with my ability to use them, I just need to improve my transitions and I guess not always going down and then up and then down again with my shaping is something as well.
You are a fine tutor, Scott. If only this had been available years ago!
awesome course
My cheat to determine the (major) key signatures quickly is to take the last written sharp and move it up a half step (so if there are three sharps, move G# up a half step, piece is in A major, two sharps, move C# up a half step, D major etc). For all flat key signatures, except F major, I just look at the second to last flat and that's the major key signature. So in Ab major, the second to last flat in the key signature is Ab, the second to last flat in Eb major (Bb, Eb, Ab) is Eb. A nice party trick to pull off in theory class when the teacher hands out a lead sheet in Gb major.
Awesome as always =3