Danny Castro
Danny Castro
  • Видео 26
  • Просмотров 50 695
5 Steps to Making Better Music - Real Life Stories, Real Life Tools
Join my cat and I for a chat about 5 steps you can take to get better at making music as well as some personal anecdotes about lessons learned the hard way.
Me:
@danjocastro
dannycastromusic.com
Stock Photo/Video:
@dursun_somuncu - sunset
@cottonbro - beach radio
@koolshooters - yellow tv
@pok_rie - Abstract Art Background
Просмотров: 109

Видео

Meshuggah is Atonal Classical Music?
Просмотров 4612 года назад
We get into some djent 101 with one of my favorite Meshuggah tunes. www.dannycastromusic.com @danjocastro Schoenberg photo from Wikipedia (photographer info via the Schoenberg Archives at USC was not readily available) Mudra from Meshuggah's website Lanterns: @kellymlacy Dancers: @stef.with.f Fire-Sparks: Pexels user, GamOI
Jazz Fusion Bass Performance - "Failure to Save"
Просмотров 2903 года назад
An original tune called "Failure to Save". The title suggests that it is about climate change or something but really, my recording software crashed before I saved the first time. Oops. www.dannycastromusic.com Instagram - @danjocastro Credits (All stock footage is from Pexels): @fisk.tom @pixabay @p_perzan @ataozkan @mart.production @thesound_of_youremotions @kellymlacy @tracehudson_ SuzyHazel...
Paul Chambers, Walking Bass & Miles Davis' "So What" - WARNING: Jazz Theory Inside!
Просмотров 18 тыс.3 года назад
I break down PC's harmonic approach to walking bass on Miles Davis' tune, "So What". I write short music related articles weekly. Check out my Substack for more!: unprocedurallygenerated.substack.com www.dannycastromusic.com Instagram - @danjocastro Credits: @brotherkehn - SF Pic @pixabay - GG Bridge Pic PC Photo from Wikipedia: By Source, Fair use, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50054113 D...
Upright & Electric!
Просмотров 5543 года назад
I decided to play upright and electric bass on this little jam. www.dannycastromusic.com Instagram: @danjocastro
Mayhem in Trek City - Star Trek, Bass & Jazz-Metal! (original short song)
Просмотров 2263 года назад
A music video inspired by one of my favorite franchises. www.dannycastromusic.com Instagram: @danjocastro Warp animation from youTube channel Tertiary Adjunct: ruclips.net/user/tertiary7featured
Original Jazz Fusion - Danny Castro, Bass - "Dolphins & Killer Whales"
Просмотров 1453 года назад
Dolphins & Killer Whales is an original song of mine that began as an exploration of the u-he Zebralette synthesizer plugin. I had such a blast recording this tune and making the video. Thanks for checking it out! www.dannycastromusic.com @danjocastro Nerd info: The bassline is all one continuous take and the solo is two takes spliced together. It was recorded in Studio One using u-he, Toontrac...
Space Elevator
Просмотров 953 года назад
Thanks for watching! www.dannycastromusic.com
Meteors and Lava Lamps
Просмотров 883 года назад
Here is a song I wrote and originally posted on Instagram. I wish it was longer but I think extending it might wreck it. Maybe I'll try building on it eventually. dannycastromusic.com
The Sixteen Men of Tain | In Appreciation of Allan Holdsworth
Просмотров 5814 года назад
The Sixteen Men of Tain, written by Allan Holdsworth. Bass: Danny Castro Instagram @danjocastro www.dannycastromusic.com Guitar: Elias Lucero Instagram @eliasluceromusic Drums: Michael Henning Instagram @michaelhenningmusic Final audio/video mixed and produced by Danny Castro.
When your search for gear brings you... disco?
Просмотров 864 года назад
I had the pleasant surprise of finding music that inspired me in a gear review video recently. I tell the tale and try to convince you that disco isn't all bad. www.dannycastromusic.com Instagram: @danjocastro If you are interested in taking Zoom lessons feel free to contact me through my website. Thanks for reading, thanks for watching.
Allan Holdsworth's Tokyo Dream
Просмотров 2,9 тыс.4 года назад
Tokyo Dream is my favorite Allan Holdsworth tune. The version on Wardenclyffe Tower sounds HUGE. Out of all the Allan Holdsworth records this one does it for me the most. A big thanks to Elias and Jacob for joining me here. Danny Castro - Bass Elias Lucero - Guitar Jacob Gilmore - Drums Danny www.dannycastromusic.com Instagram: @danjocastro RUclips: ruclips.net/user/danjocastro Elias Instagram:...
Nobody Else But Me | Fretless Bass & Piano Duo
Просмотров 3305 лет назад
Danny Castro and Abraham Imansjah play Jerome Kern's "Nobody Else But Me". Danny Castro - Fretless Bass Instragram: @danjocastro www.danjocastro.com Abraham Imansjah - Piano Instaram: @abeimansjah www.garudablueband.com
CWM Trio | Donna Lee (Live in Pacifica)
Просмотров 2565 лет назад
Danny Castro - Bass Evan Williams - Drums Daniel Mandrychenko - Guitar Video by Dan Folds for Pint of Soul - pintofsoul.com Live sound engineering by Zach Miley - zachmiley.com Audio mix by Danny Castro - www.danjocastro.com Concert produced by Abe Imansjah - www.garudablueband.com Donna Lee by Charlie Parker (or Miles Davis as the legend goes...) Recorded in April 2019
Dirt Water
Просмотров 415 лет назад
Performance from August 16th, 2018 at the Octopus Literary Salon in Oakland California. Daniel Mandrychenko - Guitar Danny Castro - Bass Curran Sinha - Drums "Dirt Water" written by Danny Castro
Bbbbass
Просмотров 915 лет назад
Bbbbass
The Way You Look Tonight Ray Brown Transcription
Просмотров 2357 лет назад
The Way You Look Tonight Ray Brown Transcription
Cherokee NHØP Transcription
Просмотров 20 тыс.7 лет назад
Cherokee NHØP Transcription
Sonnymoon for Two
Просмотров 4968 лет назад
Sonnymoon for Two
Corcovado
Просмотров 3008 лет назад
Corcovado
Upright Bass Blues Solo, Danny Castro
Просмотров 3329 лет назад
Upright Bass Blues Solo, Danny Castro
NHØP Solo, "Have You Met Miss Jones," Arco
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.11 лет назад
NHØP Solo, "Have You Met Miss Jones," Arco
NHØP Solo, "Have You Met Miss Jones," Pizzicato
Просмотров 2,5 тыс.11 лет назад
NHØP Solo, "Have You Met Miss Jones," Pizzicato
Billie's Bounce (Bass)
Просмотров 33611 лет назад
Billie's Bounce (Bass)
PC Solo
Просмотров 26612 лет назад
PC Solo
Red Simandl Page 38 #8
Просмотров 69512 лет назад
Red Simandl Page 38 #8

Комментарии

  • @jamiepastman5594
    @jamiepastman5594 Месяц назад

    just fantastic, great great great! the bass solo suddenly was like a cross between Tokyo Dream and Havona (Weather Report)

  • @3340steve
    @3340steve 3 месяца назад

    Thanks, that blew up for me. never thought of it that way.

  • @KaltOhm
    @KaltOhm 6 месяцев назад

    What an awesome video!

  • @Gk2003m
    @Gk2003m 7 месяцев назад

    The other way (or more precisely, one of many other ways) to consider some of what you are hearing here is simple triad movement. Eb- to F major triad, then simply move thru the upper extensions of those. Yes it can be considered a simplification, but it helps get beginners to play appropriate choices.

  • @mikegeld1280
    @mikegeld1280 7 месяцев назад

    Not bad,I'm also hearing (in the song) MD going into Em7 and Fm7 over the Dm7/Ebm7,the whole thing is very interesting, but I think u might be right about this,because these guys are master class ,and these are good reasons why modal jazz is special, it give everyone more liberties, with the suspension of tonality, great analysis mate,👍

  • @rob_ewing
    @rob_ewing 9 месяцев назад

    Hey Danny! Just stumbled on this. My 2 cents - PC is thinking of the bridge as Db major rather than Eb minor. In the first measure of the bridge you can think of those first 2 quarter notes as approaching the Db (tonic) on beat 3. That's what it sounds like to me. Cheers, man.

    • @danjocastro
      @danjocastro 8 месяцев назад

      Hey Rob. Glad the vid made it your way. Thanks for checking it out!

  • @levimatthew8911
    @levimatthew8911 9 месяцев назад

    Parental Warning! - Explicit Learning

  • @bassporn
    @bassporn 11 месяцев назад

    Gold!!!…

  • @mikegeld1280
    @mikegeld1280 Год назад

    Modal jazz,,,to neutralize tonality, but still speak to it,using dom 7s,I think ur right in this listen, the half step is the cadence, this is actually sophisticated stuff,using only two chords ,classic cuts,great video 👍

  • @krisfunn9338
    @krisfunn9338 Год назад

    Miles told his musicians it was just the white and black keys. P.C. is just making sense of that with passing tones.

  •  Год назад

    Very nice! The E natural at the end of the Ebm7 sound to me like a subV of Ebm7, like this note makes a lot of sense when going out of a Bb7alt. I think they were in a mood of just let the chords come from nowhere, so this also makes sense to me, like "I'm leading to an Ebm7, but watch out, here's the Dm7".

    • @danjocastro
      @danjocastro Год назад

      Letting the chords come from nowhere… 🤔 The E natural being a tritone sub for Bb7 actually makes a lot of sense to me. I hear the modulation from the Ebm tonal center to the Dm tonal center as being very direct. Chords from nowhere, you might be right!

    •  Год назад

      @@danjocastroNice! 🙌🏼🙏🏼

  • @Threlgar
    @Threlgar Год назад

    Maybe the E natural(bt 4, ms 8) is simply a leading tone implying a ii-V back to the d minor.......(but no, you're not talking crap here...)

  • @NelsonMontana1234
    @NelsonMontana1234 Год назад

    2:05 I just see that as blues scale.

  • @christianfrey8920
    @christianfrey8920 Год назад

    Appreciate the analysis on a deep topic. When you had the piano play the implied chords, it reminded me a bit of the Sound Marcus Roberts and Veal had.

  • @Gregorypeckory
    @Gregorypeckory Год назад

    Beautiful job interpreting this incredible tune by the grand master; it's good to know there are people with the chops and sensitivity to take it on and do it justice!

  • @paulhaynes561
    @paulhaynes561 Год назад

    So What's opening bassline and walking line is based on Bohemia After Dark by Oscar Pettiford. Studying Bohemia After Dark will help to understand Chambers' bassline even better -- OP was his hero. Pettiford even wrote a response to So What -- entitled Why Not? That's What!

  • @ili626
    @ili626 Год назад

    E natural in ms 8 might be leading back to Dm7 by implying 5th of A7 ?

  • @joshmcdzz6925
    @joshmcdzz6925 2 года назад

    thumbs up man!!!

  • @charlesborn9401
    @charlesborn9401 2 года назад

    Corey likes

  • @AmaralBass
    @AmaralBass 2 года назад

    When I see those analysis I always questioned if He was really conscious of this when he created that line or he just played what he was felling? I think he was giving a shit about what the theory behind what how as doing, however I love to be able to understand what is happening lol. Very nice video by the way.

  • @antoniotraverso6462
    @antoniotraverso6462 2 года назад

    Thanks so much Danny.

  • @stlapierre
    @stlapierre 2 года назад

    the recording from those sessions were all improv's ....

  • @pabloferrer1839
    @pabloferrer1839 2 года назад

    So What...if your analysis is too deep.

  • @kith4312
    @kith4312 2 года назад

    sometimes I just think that they don't really think about all this theory as its not a very musical approach, and really just have good ears, and go with whatever sounds good in the moment, is it just me?

    • @danjocastro
      @danjocastro 2 года назад

      Yeah, I can see why one might feel this way. Other folks in the comments have expressed similar sentiments. To play devil’s advocate I would ask, why is it so hard to believe that these guys knew what they were doing? Miles Davis studied at Juilliard. Bill Evans was a composition major. Paul Chambers studied with orchestra players and played classical music. And that’s not to belittle the education they got from playing and conversing with all of the great musicians of their time. So I guess it’s possible they didn’t think about the theory but it doesn’t seem hard to believe that they did. Thanks for your comment, Kith! ✌️

    • @kith4312
      @kith4312 2 года назад

      @@danjocastro I'm pretty sure they had access to all this knowledge, but in a playing or improvisational setting isn't it encouraged that you don't think and just listen?

    • @Hiphopdabop
      @Hiphopdabop Год назад

      I believe it is and was not a matter of intellectual thinking as opposed to chromatic and approach notes via the Blues. So-called Bebop scales or mapping out a vamp in Ebmin using passing tones are tried and true movements that were and are passed as a language whether the artist is schooled or not. The more you gather, the better. Miles said he learned more on 52nd St. than at Juilliard .. Word Of Mouth works as well as a book..

  • @MillarAlex
    @MillarAlex 2 года назад

    Subscribed! Great video. Pardon my ignorance but why exactly would the V of Ebm7 need a flattened 9th? I've recently started getting into jazz theory and I didn't understand that part of your video. Thanks.

    • @danjocastro
      @danjocastro 2 года назад

      Great question, Alex. Minor harmony is less straight forward than major harmony. I'm going to assume that you understand how a major V to I works; chords built from the I and V of the major scale. When we switch to minor, we recalibrate our I to be vi. So now vi is i, viiø is iiø, I is III, ii is iv, iii is v, etc.. So in minor, instead of V going to I we get v going to i with the parent scale of v being Phrygian and the parent scale of i being Aeolian. The Phrygian scale has the b9 in it. From this perspective, the real question isn't why the V of Ebm7 has a b9 in it, it's why it has a major third in it! So why does it have a major 3rd in it? Because we copy paste it in from major harmony to provide us with the leading tone. It gets deeper but that is the first level of the answer to your question. I hope that makes sense. Thanks for the great question!

    • @MillarAlex
      @MillarAlex 2 года назад

      @@danjocastro Great, thank you for your swift reply!

  • @littledittymusic
    @littledittymusic 2 года назад

    This is so interesting! Thanks!

    • @danjocastro
      @danjocastro 2 года назад

      Glad you dug it. Thanks for watching!

  • @dijonstreak
    @dijonstreak 2 года назад

    WAY too much Theoretical trampoline.....i'm outta here...just LISEN admire and PLAY it..THAT'S why God gave us EARS. !!

  • @bustabass9025
    @bustabass9025 2 года назад

    Which version did you transcribe? Those are not the notes he plays in his walking bassline, during Miles' solo from the original 1959 studio album Kind of Blue.

  • @jazzbassix2814
    @jazzbassix2814 2 года назад

    I think the the 4th beat of m. 8 is a shart Eb. I also think that the B naturals in m. 4 are flat C naturals. That would make m. 4 an allusion to Ab7 (the V of Db.).

  • @bassporn
    @bassporn 2 года назад

    Gold!!!... Thanks...

  • @maksymilianlewinski8619
    @maksymilianlewinski8619 2 года назад

    Great stuff, more of this kind of interesting walking analysis please!

  • @liamwatson5125
    @liamwatson5125 2 года назад

    Chambers’ scroll was a carved face, like a viola da gamba.

  • @chrisedwards7996
    @chrisedwards7996 2 года назад

    What an absolutely brilliant analysis, Danny. Thanks so much for sharing! Serious Respect to you!

    • @danjocastro
      @danjocastro 2 года назад

      I appreciate it, Chris. Thank you sir!

    • @jamesrichardson3322
      @jamesrichardson3322 Год назад

      ​​​@@danjocastro I enjoy this video, I am a bassist myself. I am a Double Bass/ Electric bassist, Paul Chambers was a brilliant man, and there will EVER be another one like him. He died the year before I was born, I didn't discover him until I was in my 20's. He was a tragic loss to the world 😭, extremely sad how his life ended. His cousin was Doug Watkins the bassist for the Jazz Messenger, tragically he was killed in 1962 in an automobile accident. You should do video on his cousin Doug Watkins, and comparison videos of Paul Chambers and his cousin style.

  • @danielsavage1784
    @danielsavage1784 2 года назад

    Frigggin' awsome breakdown!

  • @redmondfella
    @redmondfella 2 года назад

    Very interesting analysis. Makes sense.

  • @bobblues1158
    @bobblues1158 2 года назад

    Now you know.

  • @RonaldMoD
    @RonaldMoD 2 года назад

    Ehhh... no.

  • @bobbachelor5930
    @bobbachelor5930 2 года назад

    Finally ! I'm glad a bass player finally said it !

  • @Gk2003m
    @Gk2003m 2 года назад

    I like your analysis! Your analysis is very good, and very meaningful! Ok, now that “try to scam the teacher” approach didn’t work for me, yeah I like what you showed here. I’ll have to apply that to my triad pairs approach the next time I play this.

  • @Don2Rich
    @Don2Rich 2 года назад

    I seen a interview with Jimmy Heath and he said that Miles told him that every musician that was not in his band played so what wrong because there was no chords. Just the white keys on the piano and the bridge was the black keys. Mind blowingly simple right.

    • @winstonoboogie6317
      @winstonoboogie6317 Год назад

      @@GARRY3754 Why "these days"?

    • @brax08224
      @brax08224 Год назад

      @@winstonoboogie6317 because everyone overcomplicates everything

  • @rmr5044
    @rmr5044 2 года назад

    This is awesome!

  • @KingPorter
    @KingPorter 2 года назад

    I'm convinced that we jazz guys like to talk about this stuff to show off how much we know...🤣

    • @almendratlilkouatl
      @almendratlilkouatl Месяц назад

      yet there's always someone who feels it is bragging while in other expressions of art and science the same concept of sharing one's own mastery of the craft is often viewed as a humble thing to do instead of bragging

  • @chrisbarkerfan
    @chrisbarkerfan 2 года назад

    I'm sorry man but I think there is a mistake. Last note on 4th bar ( minute 2.38) is not a B, is a C. I've listened many times and saw lots of transcriptions. Is not a B, is a C. So is a major 9. On measure 6 we have, instead of Cb-C ; Bb-C. So is not a flat 7 of Db, is a major 6 and, well, this change everything. Where did you find the transcription?

    • @chrisbarkerfan
      @chrisbarkerfan 2 года назад

      I forgot: E natural on beat four of measure 8 is a diatonic approach to D-. He's sayin': I'm coming back to D-

    • @danjocastro
      @danjocastro 2 года назад

      Matt, I appreciate your thoughtful comment! That being said, I have to respectfully disagree on both counts. I just went back and listened again and I am still confident in my interpretation. In measure 4 I clearly hear the minor third between the B and Ab. Even if the last note in that measure was a C I wouldn’t think of it as a major 9. It would just be a leading tone on beat 4 going to Db. In measure 6 I’m still getting the Cb-C too. I think it’s why the C sounds like a C even though it’s one of the only notes here that doesn’t seem to have any real pitch information. I didn’t find this transcription anywhere. I transcribed it from scratch. I double checked every note on the recording at 25% speed and up an octave. Thanks again, Matt. And who knows, maybe I am wrong!

  • @MarcoAGJ
    @MarcoAGJ 3 года назад

    Good stuff.

  • @LA-hx9tx
    @LA-hx9tx 3 года назад

    Nice. If you look at the other bridges, there's more. I think he emphasizes an Ab7 at one point.

  • @88anarahammertime
    @88anarahammertime 3 года назад

    i like this

    • @danjocastro
      @danjocastro 3 года назад

      Thanks for watching, Diego!

  • @dcross8034
    @dcross8034 3 года назад

    Great analysis

  • @adamhernandez3165
    @adamhernandez3165 3 года назад

    You’ve earned a subscriber

  • @Jared199503
    @Jared199503 3 года назад

    Jam

  • @Jared199503
    @Jared199503 3 года назад

    Thangyou