Playing Bass Lines With Your Left Hand - Geoffrey Keezer | 2 Minute Jazz

Geoffrey Keezer provides some insight into how he emulates bass
players with his left hand.


Check out Geoffrey's course, Advanced Jazz Piano Concepts, at
https://www.openstudionetwork.com/project/ajp-overview/


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(jazz piano music)


- Hey, this Geoffrey Keezer for 2 Minute Jazz. I'm gonna
talk about playing bass lines with your left hand really
briefly. I feel like when I listen to music, my hands, my
right hand might be listening to the right hand solos of Herbie
or Bud Powell or Chick or Wynton Kelly or McKoy, but my left
hand, at the same time, is listening to the bass line. 


My left hand is checking out Ray Brown and Paul Chambers and
Bootsy Collins and Jaco Pastorius and guys like that. When I
sit down to play solo piano, my left hand is actually thinking
like a bass player. 


This kind of bass line I'm playing on The Nearness of You is kind
of a hybrid of something Ray might play and a Jaco-ish kind of
thing.


(jazz piano bass line)


So when I got to the diminished cord


(piano melody with right hand)


I did a thing that Ray Brown did


(funky bass line)


That lick based on the diminished scale, but these are all things
that creative bass players play. So, in addition, when
you're transcribing don't just transcribe the right hand piano
solos but actually transcribe what bass players are doing, what
the horn players are doing, what the singer's doing, what the
drummers are doing. All these kind of ensemble ideas you can
work into your solo piano playing and it's gonna give it an extra
dimension and more depth. It's gonna build up your left hand
and make it stronger at the same time.


(jazz music featuring piano)


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