How To Create Your Own Hip Hop Bass Lines

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This is offered in the spirit of criticism and feedback - given that you have turned off commenting on your blog, this will have to be the place I deliver this to you.....

The videos may or may not be worth viewing but your written content is severely lacking in accuracy and content - you allude to how you can use scales but then throw us over to the videos - nice way way to push traffic to your site to increase your advertising revenue but light on actual utility for advertised purpose.....

Bebop is later in the day in terms of jazz history (mid 40's when jazz is documented to have started a good 50 years before that)

Anything can be boring if not taught in an engaging manner - for you to label lessons (of any sort, but in this case, music) as boring only tells me that you had poor teachers or poor engagement (more likely the latter)

Scales are nothing new or spectacular - they are the building block for chords and melodies - however, it is what you do with notes that do not exist in the scale that separates great music from ordinary music

some better tips for creating bass lines (without having to watch a video first) would be

play the root note every time the kick hits
play notes from within the current chord whenever the kick plays
do the above and decorate with notes from the scale in between kick hits
apply the bootsy funk formula - search for it on youtube
search for my posts on basslines over the past 3 years

ps I write the above as a bass player of 37 years experience
 
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I appreciate your 37 years of experience as well as your willingness to take the time to offer a response "in the spirit of criticism and feedback"

A few points
1. The videos are for those who are interested in an easy way to understand the process and know or care nothing about theory.

2. When i spoke of bebop, i was relating that in terms of the history of music in general which came before the other genres i listed. I'm very aware that bebop is a later part of jazz history. When i said early jazz days don't take that so literal.

3. Music lessons have never been boring to me however, i know people who think they are no matter how engaging the lessons are which just tells me everybody is different. Some folks prefer to learn visually.

4. I didn't write this in the article, but in some of the videos i explain that the scales are just reference guides and each note doesn't have to be played. You can even add/subtract notes outside the scale which i agree with you on the separation of ordinary and great.

5. U are entitled to your opinion about my content severely lacking in accuracy and content but as long as it helps at least one person that's all i care about. The subscribers that im blessed with just lets me know that i'm doing something right which is good enough for me.
 
thanks for the article.
I've never been interested in hip hop but your article opened me up to a whole new genre.
 
Thanks for sharing this article. Its just what I needed!
 
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