Hearing the Changes Lesson 2-Bass Notes is the second lesson in\u00a0a series of lessons on developing the ability to figure out the changes to a song by ear. This is not a lesson that will immediately give you perfect pitch or the ability to hear all chords tomorrow,\u00a0\u00a0but rather this is a lesson on steering you down the path of improving your ear and getting better at hearing and recognizing changes in the moment.<\/p>\n
Lesson 1 & 2 originate from a sax player that I played with many years ago that \u00a0came on my gig as an additional horn. \u00a0The band played a standard that he didn’t know at all. \u00a0After I played the melody and took a solo he came in to solo and played a great solo through the changes. \u00a0 During the break, I talked to him and asked him how he soloed so well on a tune he didn’t know and he responded that during the melody and my solo he was listening and figuring out the bass notes of the tune. Once he had those pretty much down it was pretty easy to figure out the chords. \u00a0I was blown away! No one had ever taught me to listen to the bass notes to figure out a tune. \u00a0Before this time I was just hearing a vague cloud of sound and trying to figure out what notes on my sax sounded good against it. \u00a0 It never occurred to me to listen to the bass notes to figure out the roots as common sense as that sounds.<\/p>\n
In Hearing the Changes Lesson\u00a02-Bass Notes, \u00a0we\u00a0continue down the road to hearing bass notes and figuring out the chord qualities associated with them. \u00a0 I continue to \u00a0take you through transcribing the chords of a random Aebersold track by first figuring out the root notes played by the bass and then trying to figure out the chord qualities by ear but also by using a bit of theory common sense. In this lesson you will start to learn the process that I go through to try to figure out chords without a chart. \u00a0(37 Minute Video Lesson, final handwritten PDF of chords to mystery tune)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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