After four bars of drums and percussion, the songs main groove kicks in. Endorsed by jimmy haslip, chucho valdes, and paquito drivera. When you ask session and touring musicians, everyone wants to have. Born in the bronx to puerto rican immigrants, spanish was haslip s first language and he learned to speak english in kindergarten. Jimmy haslip interview the zen of bass abstract logix. Jimmy haslip for bass players onlyfor bass players only. Scales and modes for the bass guitarist kindle edition by jimmy haslip. Even the most seasoned jazz musician will find new ways of creating distinctive melodies, patterns, bass lines, and harmonies, allowing for the truest personal. I was told that this is the jazz equivalent of slonimskys thesaurus. The lessons contain diatonic, modal, pentatonic, whole tone, and diminished scales as well as modes of both the harmonic and melodic minor scales, eastern, middle eastern, and other exotic scales of jimmy s own invention.
Bailey, alain caron, will lee, gary willis, jimmy haslip, michael manring, mathew. Jimmy haslip played for the yellowjackets when i was growing up and i loved them. Wayne shorters unique soprano saxophone combined with the genius of joe zawinul on synthesizers and jacos melodic beauty on electric. An indispensable book on scales and modes for the bass guitarist. Jimmy johnson is an american bass player born in 1956. Download jeff berlin a comprehensive chord tone system for mastering the bass 54. His father, james joseph jaime haslip 19151999 served in the united states customs service, beginning as a merchant marine until moving to patrolman and eventually deputy commissioner, marrying jimmy s mother virginia viera haslip 19122009 in 1937.
Pdf jimmy haslip melodic bass library free download pdf. Challenges of playing bass upsidedown, and solutions to these challenges. Com published by abdo publishing company, 8000 west 78th street. Jimmy haslip jimmy haslip s melodic bass library scales and modes for the bass guitarist. The lessons contain diatonic, modal, pentatonic, whole. Available singly or as a set, in print or ebook form, with. The lessons contain diatonic, modal, pentatonic, whole tone, and diminished scales as well.
Scales and modes for the bass guitarist paperback may 1, 2001. Bass and drums form the nucleus of any rhythm section. Jimmy typically dimes all of his controls, runs on the bridge pickup for most things, dials in a bit of neck pickup when he wants to get a thickerfatter tone, and uses his left hand positioning to get the big shifts in tone. December 31, 1951 bronx, new york city jimmy haslip is a bassist, keyboardist, producer and composer.
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He continued to say how musical and sublime haslip was in situations that he had heard him. The melodic bass library by jimmy haslip bass musician. I all ready know the major modes and i was hoping you guys could suggest some exotic scales and explain whenhow i should use them. Using the yellowjackets tune run for your life, jimmy walks through a study of rhythm changes and then branches out into the types of alterations and. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading jimmy haslip s melodic bass library. Bob mintzer saxophone, ewi russell ferrante piano, keyboards jimmy haslip bass will kennedy drums 32. While in melbourne, jimmy used the in house bass rig at birds.
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