Today I went to a impromptu gathering of keyboardits. One of the gentlemen played pedal bass. Where have I been? I never heard/seen anyone do this before! He was able to achieve a sound you could never get with auto-bass. His left hand was free to play any type of chords vocing (including rootless jazz chords!) He was able play all the Latin styles with the typical anticipated bass (something impossible to do with auto-bass) He was able to maintain a typical salsa bass with his left foot, a montuno with his left hand, all while soling with the right hand!
I want to learn to do this! Anyone here play pedal bass? I can't wait to learn!
I played pedal bass for many years, and it does give you more options.
I've become very lazy, and just use arranger style, but I occasionally play pedals on a friend's B-3 two or three times a month, so I keep relatively in shape.
It's not hard to learn, the biggest difficulty keeping yourself from looking down at the pedals, and after lots of practice you should get along pretty good.
I thought you would appreciate this guy’s playing...great bass pedal work, and very slick accompaniment playing.
http://www.youtube.com/user/bigalmcp#p/u/0/QYvMRnPx-gs The other vids are great too, although all this music may be a bit too “loungey” for everyone’s taste.
Ian
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