Jazz Practice Exercises

[Nostuhw]

C-Parker Style Half Cadence - Hutson

[Nostuhw]

Third Shift Excercise - Hutson

[nimbleswitch]

These are backing tracks for Ed Fuqua's book, "Walking Bassics" (2007), including tracks for examples and exercises not on the accompanying CD.

[REVISED 2014-12-3]

Ed Fuqua (38)

[nimbleswitch]

These are backing tracks for Jay Hungerford's book, "Walking Jazz Lines for Bass" (2002), including tracks for exercises and examples not on the accompanying CD.

[2014-12-4]

Jay Hungerford (59)

[Bobsax]

Again ..Nice work Nimble
I've been having a great time working these exercises.

BTW I can't see what you did different to the Ed Fuqua book?

[nimbleswitch]

I don't think I did anything much different to the charts for Ed Fuqua's book, Bob -- maybe a few cosmetic modifications. [EDIT: Yipes, I just discovered a typo where I had entered a minor-major chord instead of a major chord. I'll fix it now.] I had to re-post it because it had disappeared off the board for some reason. I musta hit the wrong button sometime. I've gotten something good out of each of the books. But the Hungerford book, based on patterns, seems to speak to me at my age and curcumstances. I don't have time left to really study the instrument, just enjoy it.

Jack

[Claudina]

parece-me muito interessante, vou experimentar

[nimbleswitch]

Yanny, regarding your Aebersold charts--check me on this, but it looks to me that when Jamey Aebersold writes the chord symbol C7+9 he doesn't mean just C7♯9, but rather C7♭9♯9♯4♯5, or perhaps C7♭9♯9♯5. (See his Scale Syllabus on p.ii, about half-way down the chart.) That's how I read it, anyway. I haven't found a way for iReal Pro to make that chord quality, but it will make C7 with any two of those altered extensions. (E.g., C7♯9♯11 or C7♯9♯5 or C7♭9♯9)

[pdxdjazz]

While some prefer to try to specify a complex jazz voicing, many would simply write:

C7alt

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_chord
(see complex dominant chords near the bottom of the page)
)BOB

[nimbleswitch]

Bob, what exactly does iRP Playback when you enter a C7alt chiord? Do you happen to know? it appears that an altered 7th could mean a variety of sharped or flatted extensions. I tried to ask this question a month ago on the iOS thread, but no answer. I have played around with it a bit. To me, on Playback C7alt sounds more like C7♭9 ♯ 9 than anything else, but I don't have a great ear.