You can't go wrong playing a G7 sound over that chord, but both Freddie Hubbard and Herbie take a much simpler approach. This uses the root and 5th played together. Workshop“CantaloupeIsland-HerbieHancock” Ingmar Meissner 27. Chicago-born pianist Herbie Hancock came to prominence in the early 1960’s with his composition ‘Watermelon Man’. In this bass guitar lesson I’m going to show you how to play Cantaloupe Island by Herbie Hancock.If you’re just starting out playing Jazz or want to go and play at a Jazz Jam session there’s a good chance you may see this tune!This tune was originally recorded in the mid 1960s and you can clearly hear the jazz and rock influences. August 2012 1 Zur Entstehungsgeschichte Cantaloupe Island ist ein Jazzstandard von Herbie Hancock, der erstmals Make sure you check out my book ‘The Essential Guide To Walking Bass for Bass Guitar Players’My book and my full Walking Bass course ‘The Essential Guide To Walking Bass’ are available inside the Bass Lab PLUS Membership.The Bass Lab PLUS is complete program for the beginner to intermediate bass player - All Bass Lab PLUS courses are easy to understand and simplify complex ideas so bass players in the early phases of learning can make rapid progress and achieve results that impress their friends and family fast.
There is a set bass line for Cantaloupe Island and it’s important to learn this first. This album is made especially for bass guitar players and uses 100% real musicians - nothing computer generated!Cantaloupe Island is a simple, yet slightly unusual tune. Cantaloupe Island[1] ist ein Jazzstandard von Herbie Hancock, der erstmals 1964 veröffentlicht wurde. On the original recording that Dm7 (which, I take it is the "sticking" point that needs analysis) is always voiced as a Dm7sus4 in Herbie's left hand. It’s very straightforward and the great thing is you’ll hear both beginner all the way to professional musicians playing this piece.You’ll also find learning Walking Bass will massively help you come up with creative ideas which will work over this tune. There are plenty of options to have some fun with this idea once you are comfortable!One idea you’ll hear many bass players use over the D minor section, in bars 9 -12, is to create a 2 bar phrase where the original chord idea stays the same in the first bar and a bass fill is placed in the second bar.To create the fill I’m going to use the D Minor Pentatonic Scale. "Cantaloop " was recorded as a demo a year before the group's first release. Note the insistent bass line and the melody that repeats over the unusual chord change of 4 bars F minor to 4 bars of C sharp 7
Chicago-born pianist Herbie Hancock came to prominence in the early 1960’s with his composition ‘Watermelon Man’. 23. You can split the 16 bar sequence down in two core ideas: A simple ‘Box Shape’ bass line which is built using the root, 5th, flat 7th and octave for the Fm7 & Db7 chords. Hancock was part of a bigger movement in modern jazz expressing a return to the ‘roots’ of Gospel and Blues. It did not chart in their native UK, but in the US, "Cantaloop " reached No.
A mini-retrospective of Herbie Hancock's early years as a jazz artist, this six-track CD touches on some of his best-known small-ensemble works from that period. )There is a set bass line for Cantaloupe Island and it’s important to learn this first. It’s a 16 bar chord sequence in the key of F minor. Here are 4 examples of simple bass fills you could play which are perfect for beginner to intermediate bass players.Cantaloupe Island is one of those classic jazz tunes you’ll perform time and time again. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's only top 40 single. This uses the octave, flat 7th and 5th of each respective chord and falls nicely under the hand using the box shape. It was subsequently re-released in UK where it peaked at No. The jazz-rap group Us3 sampled "Cantaloupe Island" in their song "Cantaloop ", from their album Hand On the Torch.