I love her books and although i have been playing professionally for over 35 years i still use them and always find something new and inspiring from them and her. You can find kayes 150 bass playing tips on three separate pages. I grew up in a housing project during world war ii. Here you can find carol kaye jazz improvise for bass book pdf shared files. Though she loved the bebop jazz scene, carol was a single mother with three kids and so to the studios she went, eventually switching to bass. Bass represent the finest in bass lines of all styles. Jazz improv soloing dvd course wmanual by carol kaye on. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Carol kaye jazz improvisation for bass american popular music. Report carol kaye jazz bass please fill this form, we will try to respond as soon as possible. Shes published a lot of books over the years, mostly for bass players, as well as the early joe pass books. Carol kaye nee smith, born march 24, 1935 is an american musician. Download carol kaye jazz improvise for bass book pdf files. The right approach to getting fine jazz soloing together on bass.
Pros jazz phrases bass clef by carol kaye book and cd. Carol kaye over haar sessiewerk voor beach boys, sam cooke. Carol kaye how to play electric bass line 1 youtube. This recording was never owned by hal blaine who illegally uses it for his own purposes without her permission. Carol kaye had a more urban, almost refined way of playing pop songs im not putting it down, that almost sounded pretty in comparison. How to play the electric bass classic first book has poprockfunksoulblues even some jazz along with little green apples, i dont need no doctor, feelin alright etc. Carol kaye chordal notes approach jazz guitar online.
Gotta quibble here, although happy to see you found alan slutskys analysis of whether carol kaye or james jamerson laid down those definitive motown baselines but alan is a friend, and ive been hearing this one since the mid80s. Great workout with carol kaye as your personal coach, youll love this. Carol kaye was not only a pioneer in the maledominated world of pop recording sessions, but she also broke down musical barriers, playing on a multitude of records and tv and movie scoring dates of almost. You may not know carol kaye s name, but you know her work. Carol kaye s method of muting open strings with felt discussion in technique bg started by. At twentyone the producer bumps blackwell saw her playing bebop in a jazz club with.
Carol was one of the core group of anonymous studio musicians who lent her unique styles of studio guitar and electric bass playing to many of the hits recorded by such popular artists like the beach boys, ray charles, therighteous bros. Chordal tone phrases, chordal subs, stacked triads, ii v7 i, and pivotal b5 lines. Pros jazz phrases bass clef by carol kaye book and cd link actualizado 27 abril 2010 a small but potent book of late 50s hip jazz saxpiano phrases and substitute patterns, diminishedaugmentedmodal phrases and chord subs commonly used but not taught by the greats. How to play the electric bass by carol kaye goodreads. She is one of the most prolific recorded bass guitarists in rock and pop music, playing on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years. Pros jazz phrases, bass book and cd by carol kaye jazz improv learning for. She started to play jazz guitar at the age of fourteen. Youve probably heard at least a few dozen examples, and all the words, too.
Anitras twist was recorded by carol kaye on guitar and bass in the 1960s, and is ed and owned by carol. A jazz musician in the 1950s, kaye started out playing guitar on sessions before fatefully switching to bass. Am writing a jazz improv book describing this process, but it will be for bass players. Being a big carol kaye fan it really kills me that there are a number of her pre basses out there, but we dont seem to know which ones she owned. Legendary studio musician carol kaye presents 150 free tips for. But shes speaking out now to set the record straight about season 3 of. All from carol kaye guitars 1965 with earl palmer drums, ck bass on ticotico with new ibanez, rene hall bass on the others, ray johnson keyboard, bill green sax, jim horn sax, dwight carver french horn, gary coleman vibespercusion, and yours truly on multiguitar parts and lead guitars. Carol kaye how to play the electric bass pdf torrent 2017. I didnt start to play music because there were women playing music, i did music because i was poor and had no other way to make a living, and was good at playing music. Caroline, no summer means new love brian wilson, het beste van the beach boys the beach boys, pet sounds. Carol kaye boogaloo bass part 11 100 standard tuning 1 aintro 55 7 5775 7 57 550 35 3 33 35x e b a s s 3 55 7 5775 7 57 x5 7 8 10 10 58 5 5 55 7 55775 7653 5050 2345 35 3535 5 7 5 7 57775.
Im talking about basics like a few scales and chords. Always there were a few women in the jazz fields working with the men, yes, but in the heavy bebop jazz only a few. Check out the video above to learn some of carol kaye s bass guitar tricks with reverbs jeremy kay, who was fortunate to learn from kaye. Description download carol kaye jazz bass comments. Fortunately, my books have sold 100s of 1,000s worldwide for decades, helping 10s of 1,000s of bassists, enabling them to have good playing careers, and are endorsed by vips in the music world also. Some record hits from union contracts, logs whipped cream herb alpert spanish eyes al martino good vibrations, help me rhonda, sloop john b, i get around, wouldnt it be nice dano, calif. Carol kayes method of muting open strings with felt.
No doubt, she is probably the most recorded bass guitar player in history, with tons of hits and acclaim. Carol kaye, studio musician, writer, publisher and educator of famous bassists. The official carol kaye web site the official carol kaye web site bass books. Carol kaye how to play the electric bass pdf torrent. Fine unique oneonone tutoring from a world of teaching experiences, techniques of pivotingfingerings for the lh, rockfunkbluesgospelpoplatinsoulmotown jazz etc. It helps to at least know some basic music theory in regards to playing electric bass. Although the homage to legendary bassist carol kaye in.
Highly endorsed by john clayton fine jazz bassistcomposerarranger dir. Books by carol kaye author of how to play the electric bass. After starting off with some beginning bass books i decided to finally get to the carol kaye bass dvd course. Carol kaye jazz improvisation for bass free download as pdf file. Here is an exercise using the chordal scale as taught by legendary recording session bass player and jazz guitarist carol kaye. Especially for the the beach boys brian wilson, who said of her carol kaye was the greatest bass. Thomastik strings has a website which is on my links page and we sell their great bass jazz flats in my catalog at a great discount as a service to musicians, still reasonable altho. She sold the publishing rights to the pass material but kept the rights to her own. Music, jazz, electric bass, bass, guitar, jazz guitar, bass guitar. My parents were professional musicians, and when they divorced, my mother and i were left with no means of support, so i went to work at the age of nine, and when i was almost 14, paid for my own guitar lessons. Shes also spent time conducting bass lessons largely via skype, teaching her students the jazz fundamentals that are integral to her playing. She has gotten some flack the last few years for claiming she played bass on certain motown hits that were actually played by the famous mowtown bassist james jamerson. Carol kaye chordal scale bass guitar lesson youtube.
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