Talking Bass 25 Groove Challenge

Technique
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Number 12.

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Lucky 13!

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I found #14 challenging. Synchronizing the left hand rake with the 16th note triplet took me 3 days to get and get it up to speed. But once I got it it was fun to play.

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Funky! Did you have an envelope filter on or was that funk all you?

Loved it

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Thanks @John_E! No effects besides compression. That was all Bass with the treble and bass boosted slightly.

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Moving along. Number 15 is harder than I thought it would be.

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Hey @T_dub, where are you at? You’ve been MIA. Everything ok?

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Number 16 involves double stop chords. :worried:
It looked hard to do at first but in actuality I found it pretty easy to play. I was able to complete the exercise and record it during my lunch hour. Pretty fun to play!

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Sounds clean. I’ve never known what exactly is meant by “double stop”. Is it just playing 2 strings at once?

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You keep saying how hard these are and then nailing them.

I gotta jump in this train, I love how funky they are

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Nice, very Devo-ish.

Ok. I’m starting these this weekend.

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My understanding is that a double stop is playing 2 notes at the same time. Triple stop would be 3 notes.

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Ha ha they look hard when I watch Mark play them.
Many I can’t play when I start them. I start really slow to get them under my fingers, and then some I get fast, some take me some work.

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Awesome! I’ve definitely seen improvement in dexterity since I started these.

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Look at the description for #17. Doesn’t it sound hard?

Groove #17 makes use of more double stops, this time combined with slides and hammer on’s in a funk setting.

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Isn’t 3 notes a chord? Or is it that a triple stop doesn’t have to be “official” chord tones?

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I think a chord the notes are played in succession, a stop in conjunction. But I’m not 100% sure.

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With chords you play the notes simultaneously. Playing the notes of a chord one at a time is an arpeggio. Unless I am missing something :slight_smile:

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Sometimes chord and arpeggio are used interchangeably. A sax can’t play a ‘chord’ but folks will refer to an chord on an instrument like that and really mean arpeggio. I think it’s chord envy for the polyphonic instruments.

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In this video Mark Smith refers to a double stop as a two note chord, so I guess it’s a chord.

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