Jaco Pastorius was a bass genius, who developed the very scope of the instrument. His style may be to your taste – or not – but his influence on the electric bass as an instrument is not up for discussion…
Transcribing other’s solos is one approach to learn jazz improvisation. Yes, we get the irony of this not really being improvising, but the idea is that you learn directly from the masters.
Janek Gwizdala has kicked off his own online bass school. One of the concepts he digs into is how to build and expand a vocabulary in jazz improvisation…
In these two videos, Scott Devine explains in detail how you can use the Gary Willis approach to improvise using (almost) nothing but major pentatonic scales…
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