“Bass fun” Q and A with a video

Question:  Who might be able to follow a Victor Wooten solo? Answer: Edgar Meyer. Question: Who is able to follow one of Edgar’s perfectly crafted solos? Answer: Ray Brown. Question: Where do you go from there? Answer: No where. Ray throws the hammer down. It gives me the answer to a math problem I am [...]

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Being versatile – Versatile being – Part I: Listening.

As a “professional” musician, I may not be gigging around playing with big names in different towns, but what I am doing is playing with a lot of great people in a lot of different places around one town. I previously wrote  how I enjoyed playing jazz bass one night, the next night playing acoustic [...]

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Someone has to be accountable here!

Today was a lovely day so far: coffee with the lady and then to practice. It was a productive session… well sort of. I started off working on the Minor exercises on page 47 and 48. It took me an hour to get through page 47 – that was not including stumbling through the exercises [...]

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