Hi I'm Heather Miller Lardin and you're about to watch a preview of my course that's out
now on discoverdoublebass.com to give you another example of what bass line reduction
can be like let's look at the Air on the G string from the Bach third Orchestral Suite
here we have a series of octaves and there's a whole bunch of ways that you could do this
I'll just play the first measure or so
and so on I don't have a part with figures so I don't actually know what the keyboard
player would be playing I could probably figure it out but let's for the sake of argument
say that I don't know so we have a rhythmic motive that is just eighth notes just like
a walking bass line but all of those notes are not so important for me to be playing
when there's a cellist playing them maybe a loot player or a harpsichordist as well
so I could do just the bottom notes I could play like this
like that or I could play this really interesting version of seventh where I just play on every
quarter note so I'm going to play like this
that can have a really interesting effect because it really makes you feel like you're taking long strides it's a walking
Tempo and I hope that you notice that when there was a G sharp in the music that's not
in the key and so I want to bring that out even though I don't have a figure I put a
little emphasis on that and it helps to drive the line forward is there any other way that
I might be able to do this hmm oh I know I could do it like this I could go
and that gives a slightly different kind of motion the first thing I did was the
lower notes and it gave us a dotted rhythm which one do you like best well you can try
any number of them and see what works best in the ensemble that you're playing with so
now that you have some ideas go and try this with the play along track try my ideas and
see if you can come up with any of your own and see which ones you like
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