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Educator

Carmelo Leotta

I have been teaching groups or individual players in classic Jazz and Blues bass as much as providing lessons about iconic bass lines from different styles. Composing and improvisation was always part of my work and I developed a special system, the 'orbital improvisation'. Check it out and contact me!

Classic Jazz Bass

Carmelo Leotta

As a jazz player I have looked for new ways to apply the fundamental rules of harmony and phrasing. In these videos I analyzed my soloing on three famous jazz standards.

Blues bass lines

Play the bass line means to produce a very important part of the music. To play along a blues song means istantly composing a melodic line that faces the harmonic form and the general level of complexity of the music. 
The most important skill for a bass player is to understand this level and creatively contribute to the song, staying there or shifting to other levels carefully and organically.

Carmelo Leotta

Orbital Improvisation

The orbitation is the main form of movement in nature, regarding the microscopic elements and the spatial ones. Here the contents are orbitation through:

- a note and two triads

- a note and a pentatonic scale

- a note and a major scale

- a note and a dominant tension.

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