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Patrik Boman
contrabasso

Day One: The Bass Player
Outline of Discussion Topics
The non negotiables for Bassists-Pitch, Rhythm and Sound
  
1) Bass technique: Daily routine, posture, major and minor scales, major and minor chord study, the sound, walking bass

2) Jazz harmony, scales and theory

3) Basic Jazz Repertoire for The Bass Player

4) Basic music-reading skills, basic song structures in Jazz (12-bar blues, 16-bar blues, 2x16-bar song forms, AAB and AABA song forms)

 Listening and Analysis Session:
 -Bye Blackbird - (Henderson Dixon) Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
 -Sophisticated Lady - Duke Ellington
 -Dig Dis-Hank Mobley
 -Love For Sale - (Cole Porter) Miles Davis Sextet
 -S´Posin - (Razaf & Denniker) Victor Feldman
 -Au-leu-cha - Charlie Parker
 -Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock


Day Two: The Improviser
Outline of Discussion Topics
 
   1) Definition of improvisation and solo

   2) transcribing/transcribed solos

   3) Rhythmic improvisation

   4) Up tempo

   5) Using the bow

Listening and Analysis Session:
-Be bop - (Dizzy Gillespie) Victor Feldman Trio (Scott LaFaro)
-Just You Just Me - (Jesse Greer) Lester Young Quartet (Slam Stewart)
-I Can´t Give You Anything But Love (Fields & McHugh) Red Garland Trio (Paul Chambers)
-Tricotism - (O.Pettiford) Lucky Thompson Trio (Oscar Pettiford)
-My Funny Valentine - (Rodgers & Hart) Miles Davis Sextet (Paul Chambers)
-Gliss Me Again - (Johnny Guarnieri) Slam Stewart
-Do It The Hard Way - (Richard Rodgers & Lorentz Hart) Chet Baker
-A Shanty In Old Shanty Town - () Coleman Hawkins (Slam Stewart)
-Doctor Jazz - (Joe ”King” Oliver) Jelly Roll Morton Red Hot Peppers
-Yesterdays - (Kern & Harbach) Roland Kirk (Major Holley)


Day Three: The Arranger/Composer
Outline of Discussion Topics

   1) Basic arranging/composing elements: Intros, codas, interludes, vamps, transitions, shout choruses,

   2) Re-harmonization of a melody, Contrafact (new melodies on pre-existing harmonic progressions)

   3) Arranging for instruments: solo, duo, trio, quartet, quintet, and sextet

   4) Playing the melody/theme on the bass
   
   5) Bass ensemble

Listening and Analysis Session:
-Prince Albert - (Kenny Dorham) The Jazz Messengers
-Nico´s Song - (Antonio Ciacca) Antonio Ciacca Quintet
-Stardust - (Hoagy Carmichael) Oscar Pettiford
- Short Story - (Kenny Dorham) Joe Henderson
- Haitian Fight Song - Charles Mingus
-Autumn Leaves - (Mercer & Kosma) Bill Evans Trio
-Lucky To Be Me- (Bernstein, Comden, Green) Monica Zetterlund, Bill Evans Trio


Day Four: The Performer

Outline of Discussion Topics
1) The Repertoire: originals vs standards

2) The stage set up, microphones, monitors, the sound man

3) Rehearsal technique

4) The show, the set list, featuring band members

5) Role and expectations: leader, music director

Listening and Analysis session:
Video
-Charles Mingus Sextet in Europe
Studio recording Belgium
Concert Oslo, Norway
Rehearsal Sweden
-Wynton Marsalis Septet Amnesty International Concert In Chile


Day Five: The Recording Artist

Outline of Discussion Topics
   1) The studio time and audio recording: the recording engineer, mixing, editing, mastering, the record producer

   2) The concept (record title, song list)

   3) Video recording for commercial and promotional use (e.g., YouTube)

   4) Live recording (audio and video)


Listening and Analysis session:
-We´ll Be Together Again - (Fischer & Laine) Pat Martino (We´ll Be Together Again)
-Blues On A Sunday - (Joshua Redman) Joshua Redman
-Nothing Serious -(Leo Quintero) Roy Hargrove (Nothing Serious)
-Yams - (Herbie Hancock) Jackie McLean (Vertigo)
-When You’re Smiling (Shay, Fisher, Goodwin) Yusef Lateef (Into Something)
-So What - (Miles Davis) Miles Davis (Kind Of Blue)
-Wagon Wheels - (Hill, DeRose) Sonny Rollind (Way Out West)

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