Bass & Creativity: Ghosts & Voicings
In this lesson, we’ll talk about how improvisation is a great tool to practice and expand the use of new musical techniques or ideas. We will open possibilities from two ideas: ghost notes and modulation with voicings.
- 00:55 – Feel & Hear (emotional aspect)
- 01:18 – Intellactual understanding (intellectual aspect)
- 01:31 – Physical & technical skill (mechanical aspect)
- 01:42 – Use of improvisation for ghost notes
- 02:40 – Ghost note on a simple riff in C minor
- 03:05 – Changing placement and adding options
- 04:25 – Focusing and expanding a few special uses (1st beat, articulations & combinations)
- 06:46 – Diverting rhythm and changing cycles
- 08:40 – Parallel voicings modulation
- 11:01 – Starting from AM7, opening options through improvisation
- 12:19 – Focusing on Major-Minor exchange and chromaticism
- 13:31 – Starting from AM7, opening options through improvisation
- 14:58 – More options, opening doors and making choices
- 15:45 – Wrap up & outro
