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You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

7 Iconic Bass Lines (And Why You Should Learn Them)

You'll Hear It: Full Album Deep Dives with Jazz Musicians

Peter Martin

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🗓️ 22 April 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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It doesn't matter what instrument you play, these are bass lines every musician must know

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0:00.0

Hey Peter.

0:01.0

Hey Adam.

0:02.0

What do you know about the bass?

0:04.0

The bass?

0:05.0

D-B-A-B-A-S-S.

0:07.0

I know.

0:08.0

The bass, D-A-B-A-S.

0:09.0

I know.

0:11.0

Then you're going to fit right in with today's lesson.

0:18.0

Oh, yeah.

0:20.0

... And you're going to fit right in with today's lesson. Oh, yeah.

0:35.1

And I'm Adam Anas. And you're listening to the You'll Hear podcast.

0:36.4

Music advice coming at you

0:38.2

Coming at you today

0:38.8

We are sponsored by Open Studio Go to Open StudioJas.com for all your jazz lessons needs Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Peter, you know what we're talking about today I do I'm very, what? I don't know Dang, I was bluffing No, I was a rhetorical question because I know you didn't know

0:34.8

I know I was trying to trick you

0:37.1

But this is going to be one of these fun episodes where like I brought in something for Peter and Peter just gets to react to whatever I've brought in. I love these. I had an idea though because we've been working on some really cool baselines on the guide of practice sessions on YouTube.

1:11.1

Yes.

1:11.4

Just various tunes that I've been doing over the past couple months. And I've just noticed

1:15.0

like so many iconic tunes are centered around an iconic baseline. Right. And so I

1:22.1

thought we could cover the seven iconic, most iconic even. It's not in the title, but I'll

1:27.0

even say it. These are the seven most iconic baselines. And we can talk about why you should learn them, even if you don't play bass. Like, what if you don't play bass? Do you need to know the baseline to something like footprints or something like chameleon? Yeah, yes, you do. Even if you are a singer or a saxonist, or especially if you're a pianist or a guitarist, you've got to know this stuff because it's just so crucial to these iconic tunes. So we've got seven iconic tunes lined up and seven bass lines that go with them. We also have a PDF. You can check out in the description here. Go check that out and you can download that for free and follow along. for our YouTube folks. We're going to put up some notation here on the video itself, but there's still a PDF to grab for your pleasure to take home. Okay. Yeah, I'm excited, man. I am too. Should we get right into it? Let's get right into it. So we have our first iconic baseline. Now this is something we covered just a couple weeks ago here on the podcast when we were talking about iconic intros.

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