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lol yeah sounds a good idea to me... hope alls going well

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Cheers guys that's really helpful... I'm lucky enough to have Joe Hubbard work at my college (though he doesn't lecture me annoyingly), might see if I can pick his brains. Cheers, Tom[url="http://www.tomclarkebass.co.uk"] (http://www.tomclarkebass.co.uk)[/url]

Hi guys, I've just started at music college and it seems that we're being pedalled two approaches to improvising bass lines (specifically in a jazz context). The first is termed the 'chord tone' approach where the basic arppeggio of the chord is taken as the staring point with the other notes being up for grabs as it were. The second is to apply a specific scale over specific chords (ie a lydian scale over a maj7 chord). I was wondering which approach the bass playing community as a whole favours, as I am quite new to jazz playing? Cheers, Tom