Originally Posted By: raymb1
The jazz bassists don't always play the root or the fifth on the downbeat. Listen to John Pattitucci, Ron Carter, Stanley Clarke and Christian McBride, you'll hear a root once in a while.


For sure - and you missed the most obvious "breaker of the rules" imo - Gary Peacock.


But regardless - none of the above sound so obviously like a BIAB "stitched patchwork-quilt" attempt at a walking bass line.

See it isnt so much about whether a chord-tone is being applied on a strong-beat as just the kind of unnatural jump - caused - not by any musical artistic decision - but but the mere bolting on of one phrase segment to another - by means of an algorithm that clearly hasnt listened to too many bassists - whether vanilla or the bass-gods you mentioned.

Last edited by nonchai; 10/28/19 09:07 AM.

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