Building Basslines: A Rhythmic Approach with Jonathan Maron
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Summary
In this course, we invited Jonathan Maron to our studio in New York to discuss the techniques and compositional ideas that he uses to make his bass playing as inventive as possible.
Jonathan has anchored countless albums with the New York Groove Collective, as well as standout tracks for Maxwell, Erykah Badu and D’Angelo. And by taking this course, you’re going to have the blueprint you need to fix onto any idea and then go out and make it happen.
In this course you’re going to learn:
- How to make more deliberate choices with your bass lines
- How to stay grounded and connected to the music that you’re playing
- How to hear different inversions and play more melodically
- Why feeling 4 and 8 bar patterns is so valuable when reading charts
- How to keep your stride even when you make a mistake
- How to strengthen your inner pulse
- And much more.
