Using 'Donna Lee' as a study - Lesson with Scott Devine

[devinebass]

Hey guys,

One question I get all the time is [i]'how can I get great technique'[/i]?

Obviously there are many different ways of working on your technique but by using 'study pieces' it can make it a little more musical than simply shedding up and down scales (which can also great be the way)

So... I've put this lesson together for you where I discuss 'study pieces' and... show you a really cool one too!

Check the lesson out by clicking [url="http://scottsbasslessons.com/using-study-pieces"]HERE[/url]

Over and out,

Scott

[zad the dreamer]

cool vids ,interesting and nice execution of the piece

zad

[daz]

I find Scot's Lessons usually interesting and helpful. But, and its a big but (oo'err)

This 'classic' just sounds like a jumble of notes played in quick succession. Notes that bear no relation to each other. In other words just free-form tosh


Believe me i have listened to it 6 or 7 times now, its not exactly a toe tapper is it ? In fact I couldn't play a bar from it if my life depended on it.

Edited November 21, 2012 by daz

[YouMa]

I love jaco especially the stuff he played on tracks like i can dig it baby by little beaver. Donna lee just doesnt do it for me or i think it sounds a lot better on saxaphone.

[Bilbo]

'Donna Lee' works better if you understand the harmony that underpins it (it is based on the chords to '(Back Home Again In) Indiana'). Without that knowledge, it is a stream of gibberish. If you play it along with the chords, it is perfectly melodic.

And, for the record, it is a Miles Davis tunes, NOT a Charlie Parker tune.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Lee

[zad the dreamer]

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1353942854' post='1879996']
'Donna Lee' works better if you understand the harmony that underpins it (it is based on the chords to '(Back Home Again In) Indiana'). Without that knowledge, it is a stream of gibberish. If you play it along with the chords, it is perfectly melodic.

And, for the record, it is a Miles Davis tunes, NOT a Charlie Parker tune.

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Lee"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Lee[/url]
[/quote]
yes ur absolutely right.

[devinebass]

Lol... yeah... it was Miles D!... I didn't know that!... live and learn

Daz... Yeah, if you could hear the chords underneath the tune it would probably a lot easier for you to hear it - maybe I should have done it along with a backing track... i'll keep it in mind for the future.

here's Charlie Parker playing it for ya... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hANODMX9c5g

Ez,

Scott