Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Welcome!
Join me for an hour of Jazz - How to make it swing. This is Beginner friendly!
To get the assets, PDFs etc go here, it's free:
righton.arisbassblog.com/courses/live-event-august-6th-2023


Agenda:

1 - Show you the main bass line of the song Fever/Peggy Lee
2 - DIN-GA-LA Feel - ternary subdivision
3 - Playing “in two”
4 - How to make quarter notes swing
5 - Shuffle feel versus swing feel
6 - How to use the "Pattern System" for Jazz
7 - Possibilities to expand on the original line: root, fifths, triads, four-note chords, chromatic approaches, jump with triads, and more
8 - Fine points on interacting with a drummer

00:00 Welcome!
01:49 How to make something swing
03:28 Using your body
05:44 The Song: Fever
08:20 The Bass Line
10:35 Elements to "raise the temp" or lift the level of a tune
13:48 The feel of jazz ("in 2" defined)
18:15 Using a metronome to help feel the 2 and 4
21:09 Feeling the (ternary) sub-division
25:11 Demonstrating swing feel vs not swing
29:32 Mini summary of main points of swing
33:04 Moving from copying (TAB) to understanding (THEORY)
36:55 The "Theory" behind Fever
37:48 Shapes on the fretboard (My Pattern System)
42:50 Using triads to create walking bass lines
44:32 4-note chord tones and pattern system practice
50:42 The Goal
51:40 Final summary