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R&B Bass - Syllabus

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R&B Bass
Author: Danny Morris
OVERVIEW SYLLABUS REQUIREMENTS

Tweet Lesson 1: Defining R&B Music and Working with Time Defining R&B Music Feeling the Groove: Steadying Your Quarters Louis Jordan's "Caldonia" Modulation Expanding the Groove: Eighth- and Sixteenth-Note Rhythms Lesson 2: Creating Your Own Bass Lines with Timbre, Shapes, and Personality TimbreMuting Technique and the Ampeg B-15N Amp Big Joe Turner's "Shake Rattle and Roll" Defining a Bass Line's TonalitiesShapes Techniques to Inspire Your Creative Bass Palette Contrasting SectionsJean Knight's "Big Stuff" Lesson 3: Learning from the Masters, One Concept at a Time: Duck Dunn The Duck Dunn Concept: Roots and 5ths Golden Gate Quartet's "Job" More on Roots and Fifths Ray Charles' "I Got a Woman" Duck Dunn's "Dock of the Bay" Lesson 4: Willie Weeks and Chuck Rainey: Rhythmic Variation, Theme Variation, and Repetition The Willie Weeks Concept: Donny Hathaway's "You've Got a Friend" The Chuck Rainey Concept: Aretha Franklin's "Rock Steady" More on Repetition: Willie Weeks on Donnie Hathaway's "The Ghetto" More on Rhythmic Variation and Repetition: Chuck Rainey on Aretha Franklin's "Until You Come Back to Me" Lesson 5: James Jamerson, Ray Brown, Ron Carter

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COURSE INFO
For-credit tuition: $1,400 Non-credit tuition: $1,200 Add 6 CEUs: $25.00 Credits: 3 Duration: 12 weeks Catalog #: BMP-133

Course Faculty Danny Morris Professor in the bass department at Berklee College of Music.

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R&B Bass - Syllabus

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The James Jamerson Concept: Rhythm and Tonality Ray Brown's "Everyday I Have the Blues" Ron Carter with Aretha Franklin: "Bring It On Home To Me" James Jamerson on Marvin Gaye's What's Goin' On" Lesson 6: Midterm Project: Aretha Franklin's "Respect" Stop Time Chorus and the Verse to "Respect" The Bridge to "Respect" Modulating the Chorus Song Form Lesson 7: Rhythmic Syncopation: Getting Comfortable Playing on the Upbeats The Verse to King Floyd's "Groove Me" The Chorus to "Groove Me" Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band's "Express Yourself" Lesson 8: Famous R&B Bass Solos Motif and Development Willie Weeks's Solo on Donny Hathaway's "Everything Is Everything" David Hood's Solo on the Staple Singers' "I'll Take You There" Bob Babbitt's Solo on Dennis Coffey's "Scorpio" Lesson 9: When to Play, When to Embellish Bob Babbitt on Stevie Wonder's "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" James Jamerson on Stevie Wonder's "I Was Made to Love Her" Ray Charles' "The Night Time Is The Right Time" The Gospel Turnaround Lesson 10: Melodic Bass Lines Nate Watts on Stevie Wonder's "Sir Duke" Tommy Cogbill on Dusty Springfield's "Son of a Preacher Man" George Porter Jr. on the Meters' "Ain't No Use" Carol Kaye on "Bass Blues" Lesson 11: Integrating Classic Bass Lines into Your Own Playing Jerry Jemmott BB King's "The Thrill Is Gone" Bootsy Collins on James Brown's "Sex Machine" Developing Your Own Motif Embellishments Lesson 12: Review and Final Project Humility, Taste, and Feeling "the 1" Your Concept, Your Voice, Your Taste Final Performance Ready to Enroll?

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