I know I’m guilty of this… I’ll be teaching some concept or idea and say something like, “It’s just the pentatonic scale…” and then play something that I think sounds really cool. But then some students will try to do the same thing and play the pentatonic shape and it just ends up sounding… Un-musical… […]
Master The Minor 2-5-1 On Bass
Let’s talk about how to play through a minor 2-5-1 progression on bass. I don’t know about you, but when I was getting serious about my improvising, I loathed playing over minor 2-5-1 progressions. Give me a 12-bar blues? I was fine – I could play over that all day. A major 2-5-1 – no […]
