Cantaloupe Island: A Herbie Hancock Review. 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. In 1964, Hancock, a thoughtful pianist and an original composer, recorded his composition ‘Cantaloupe Island’ (our choice today) with a quartet consisting of Freddie Hubbard (tpt), Ron Carter (bass) and Tony Williams (drums). There is a set bass line for Cantaloupe Island and it’s important to learn this first.

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. It’s a 16 bar chord sequence in the key of F minor.

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 It did not chart in their native UK, but in the US, "Cantaloop " reached No. Workshop“CantaloupeIsland-HerbieHancock” Ingmar Meissner 27. )There is a set bass line for Cantaloupe Island and it’s important to learn this first. 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.

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. Of his first five albums for Blue Note Records from 1963-1965, Takin' Off, My Point of View, Empyrean Isles, and Maiden Voyage are represented -- his third and perhaps most individually realized LP, Inventions & Dimensions, is not. 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. It can be broken down into the following 4 bar sections:4 Bars of Db7 (This chord is completely unrelated to the F Minor key signature! Chicago-born pianist Herbie Hancock came to prominence in the early 1960’s with his composition ‘Watermelon Man’.

Rhythmically, we’re going to place octave, flat 7th and 5th on the last 3 ‘8th notes’ of each bar on beats 3+, 4 and 4+.Once you’ve got the bass line down below you can try reordering the 3 notes. "Cantaloop" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on March 25, 1994 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.

"Cantaloop " was recorded as a demo a year before the group's first release. August 2012 1 Zur Entstehungsgeschichte Cantaloupe Island ist ein Jazzstandard von Herbie Hancock, der erstmals Chicago-born pianist Herbie Hancock came to prominence in the early 1960’s with his composition ‘Watermelon Man’. There’s loads of space to get creative and inventive!Here I’m going to show you a simple idea called the ‘8-7-5’ fill. If you get asked to perform Cantaloupe Island there’s also a good chance you’ll also get asked to play another Herbie Hancock tune which we covered on the eBassGuitar Blog last week -I also encourage you to check  the original recording because it has the legendary Ron Carter on double bass from the album 1964 Empyrean Isles.If you want to get the backing track used in this lesson, you can get it as part of The Jazz Jam Backing Track Album Volume 1 - this is a collection of the 12 most popular Jazz songs beginner to intermediate bass guitar players will find on jam sessions. Cantaloupe Island[1] ist ein Jazzstandard von Herbie Hancock, der erstmals 1964 veröffentlicht wurde. It was subsequently re-released in UK where it peaked at No. This is found in bars 1-8 and 13-16.A sparser D minor chord groove. Hancock was part of a bigger movement in modern jazz expressing a return to the ‘roots’ of Gospel and Blues. 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. Part 1b: Learn The Cantaloupe Bass Line. Hancock was part of a bigger movement in modern jazz expressing a return to the ‘roots’ of Gospel and Blues. 23. This slim and sparse melody has atmosphere and conjures up a Caribbean past of steamy islands, African slaves and mystery.

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. The second note is ‘pushed’ before the beat and placed on beat 2+.

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. The jazz-rap group Us3 sampled "Cantaloupe Island" in their song "Cantaloop ", from their album Hand On the Torch.