Berklee Press - Funk Bass Fills Book and CdĀ šš
For Funk, R&B, Soul & Hip-Hop
Make your bass lines more creative, unique, and memorable.
Tap into the groove, and evolve your bass lines by using fills.Ā Funk Bass FillsĀ brings you beyond the basics and helps you incorporate figures into your lines that are natural to the groove. Apply these techniques to funk, soul, RnB, and hip-hop. The play-along recording lets you hear the fills in context and practice them with a rhythm section. 80 pages.
You Will Learn To:
- Create bass fills that are appropriate to funk, soul, RnB, and hip-hop contexts
- Play fills using different positions and in different keys
- Use characteristic funk rhythms and rhythmic patterns
- Mine the most useful pitch sources for effective fill notes: major and minor pentatonic, blues, and Mixolydian
- Develop bass lines over common funk progressions such as II V, I VI II V, and blues
About Anthony Vitti:
Anthony VittiĀ has performed and/or recorded bass with artists including Sammy Davis Jr, Liberace, Rita Moreno, Bobby Vinton, George Burns, Nell Carter, Robert Klein, Jerry Lewis, Gregg Bissonett (David Lee Roth), Steve Smith (Journey), Toy Caldwell, Felix Cavalier, Carmine Apece, Blues Saracino, Boston, John Scofield, Gary Nicholson, and many others. Anthony is a professor of bass at Berklee College of Music, and has mentored hundreds of musicians.
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ļ»æTestimonies:Ā
āA master of feel and groove, Anthony Vitti is one of the great champions of what it means to play the bass. Having had the privilege of three years of private instruction with Mr. Vitti, I approach every session and gig with the mantra that it isnāt the amount of notes you can fit into a single phrase that matters; itās carefully selecting those notes that are going to force the person standing in the back of the room with their arms crossed to start moving their feet without even realising theyāre doing it. This book will sharpen your critically fundamental skills of timing and feel, and you will emerge a better musician than ever before.ā
āAnnie Clements, Bassist (Sugarland)
āAnother great method from the funk-meister/professor extraordinaire. This info couldnāt come from a better source.ā
āLincoln Goines, Bassist (Mike Stern, Dave Grusin, Michel Camilo, Dave Samules)
āAnthony is an incredible player, and I consider myself very lucky to have had the chance to learn from him. His impeccable time, monster groove, and creativity as a musician have been a true inspiration to me. I will certainly be buying this book, and I highly recommend you do as well!ā
āJenni Tarma, Bassist (Christina Perry, Kylie Minogue)
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