Bye Bye Blackbird (bassless backing track)
Another bass-less track brought to you by Bassless Backing Tracks. Please like, comment and subscribe if you found this video helpful!
Bye Bye Blackbird is a very well-known jazz standard penned in 1926 by Ray Henderson. It actually has a pretty interesting history, having been covered not just by great jazz artists like Chet Baker and John Coltrane, but was also appropriated by the Nazi-sponsored propaganda band "Charlie and his Orchestra" (with suitably altered anti-American/British lyrics). Anyway, you didn't come here for a history lesson. Good practicing!
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It's tracks like these that have been introducing me to playing jazz. I could never understand it and didn't know where to start. These bassless tracks are opening a whole new world to me. Thank you.
i love these tracks and use them a lot. I am having trouble understanding the meaning of the heavy bars. do they just denote the end of an 8 bar passage?
@basslessbackingtracks
6 жыл бұрын
Hello, and thank you very much! :-) Are you referring to the double bar lines? If so, they are used to denote the end of a section of the tune (e.g. the end of the "A" section, just before the "B" section starts). In fact, the final 8 bars of this particular tune should be labelled "A", as the B section ends at the second lot of double bar lines - apologies for that! We'll get that fixed with an annotation. Generally speaking, the end of the section is a good place for a bass player and/or drummer to do a fill (although it can sound a little messy if you both try to do too much, so watch out for that!)
@GreggOliverBass
6 жыл бұрын
Bassless Backing Tracks thanks... thought it might be that
@basslessbackingtracks
6 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, KZread disabled video annotations earlier this month so we can't add the final "A" section :-( But glad to help, and happy bassing!
@GreggOliverBass
6 жыл бұрын
You guys are the bomb. are you going to work your way through the whole Real Book?
@basslessbackingtracks
6 жыл бұрын
That might be quite ambitious, but if you have any requests we'll certainly consider them!