Anthony Vitti – Rock Bass
It’s essential for any bass player interested in popular music to have a solid foundation in rock music. From its roots in traditional blues, rock bass is a launching point into many varied music styles: progressive rock, fusion, country, jam band styles, and more. Rock Bass provides the foundation and vocabulary necessary to construct and improvise bass lines in a variety of rock and blues music styles. You’ll start by learning the 12-bar blues form and the major and minor pentatonic scales. You’ll learn how to affect and contribute to a song rhythmically, harmonically, and melodically through practice lessons covering phrasing, feel and improvisation.
Throughout the course you’ll study Berklee’s bass method to Rock, Blues Rock, Delta, Chicago, and Texas blues, as well as more advanced techniques such as playing with odd time signatures, modal bass lines, and the open “jam style.” Weekly lessons cover scale exercises, listening, performing transcriptions, and studying the work of legendary players like Geddy Lee, Jack Bruce, Paul McCartney, and Chris Squire. Each week culminates in the creation and recording of your own performance. At the completion of this course, you’ll possess the skills to create and improvise your own rock and blues-based bass lines, and have the knowledge and ability to perform with a consistently solid sound, technique and timing.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Recognize different blues forms
- Incorporate many different scales into your bass lines
- Understand modal bass lines
- Have command over different meters/time signatures
- Understand syncopation
- Incorporate rhythmic depth in your bass lines
Syllabus
Lesson 1 Blues Rock 12-Bar Form
Lesson 2 Blues Rock with Different Forms
Lesson 3 Delta, Chicago, and Texas Blues
Lesson 4 The Shuffle
Lesson 5 Traditional Eighth-Note Rock
Lesson 6 Playing in a Power Trio
Lesson 7 Syncopated Bass Lines
Lesson 8 Doubling Bass Lines
Lesson 9 The Open “Jam Style”
Lesson 10 Odd Times
Lesson 11 Exploring Modal Bass Lines
Lesson 12 Making Your Lines Stand Out
Requirements
Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements
Completion of Bass Performance 101 or equivalent knowledge and experience is required. Students should have at least one year of playing experience, ability to play classic rock bass lines on the electric bass, and an understanding of tablature.
Required Textbook(s)
- None required
Software Requirements
- A basic audio recording tool that will allow you to record yourself and save the recording in MP3 format. You will have a tool to use for this purpose inside the learning environment. Alternatively, you can use software like Audacity (PC) or GarageBand (Mac)
- A program for decompressing zip files (included with Windows 10 and Mac OS X)
Hardware Requirements
- Electric bass
- Audio interface recommended
- A printer is recommended, so that you can print out music examples used in the course
Instructors
Author & Instructor
Anthony Vitti balances a successful performing career with a professorship in the Bass Department at Berklee College of Music, where he has taught since 1988. He got his start in the rock club scene in New York City in the early 80s, sharing the stage with classic rock bands like Twisted Sister, TT Quick, and the Good Rats. He went on to study at Berklee College of Music, graduating in 1986.
That set the stage for a busy performing career that has included performances on numerous Broadway shows and many television and radio commercials, as well as performances with a wide variety of artists, including Steve Smith, Gregg Bissonette, Carmine Appice, Zoro, Blues Saracino, Toy Caldwell, Barry Goudreau, Abe Laborial Jr. (Paul McCartney), Jamie Haddad, Giovani Hildalgo, Marcus Miller, Chuck Rainey, Sammy Davis, Jr., Liberace, Nell Carter, Bobby Vinton, Diane Carroll, and many other artists.
Today, he performs with Herb Reed and the Original Platters, the Drifters, the Coasters (as seen on the PBS Doo-Wop specials), and Tomo Fujita and Blue Funk. Vitti is the author of numerous bass instructional books and DVDs.
What’s Next?
When taken for credit, Rock Bass can be applied towards these associated programs:
Associated Certificate Programs
- General Music Studies Professional Certificate
- General Music Studies Advanced Professional Certificate
- Bass Professional Certificate
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