Permutations: Right Hand Fingering Paradigms

This video is the second in a series of jazz instructional videos featuring Chris Fitzgerald, assistant professor of music theory and jazz bass at the University of Louisville School of Music This installment covers subdivisions of the right arm downstroke, finger patterns, beat divisions, and accent patterns. Future installments will cover various topics including using arm weight to produce good left hand stops, shell voicings for bass, walking bass line construction, and more. For more information and bass-related content including articles, sound files, and videos, please visit chrisfitzgeraldmusic.com.

0:00 Playing intro
0:48 Spoken introduction (conception and execution)
2:20 Intro/Topics/Credits
3:09 Systematic right hand approach: Finger combination possibilities
4:50 How to pluck with the middle and ring fingers
6:00 Closeups of the five finger combinations/permutations
6:31 Quarter note division: One downstroke per note
7:26 8th note division: One downstroke every two notes
9:43 8th note triplet division: One downstroke every three notes
10:46 16th note division: One downstroke every four notes
11:25 Practical applications of beat divisions and accent patterns in walking lines
13:25 Rhythm changes walking line at Q=240 with different accent patterns
14:04 Outtro