Bilbo

But if C has no name, then D E F etc have no name either. You either categorise all of them or none of them.

Glad you shrunk that avatar photo, Sarah

They are distinct instruments with their own individual voices. When a composer is working on an arrangement idea, s/he can conceptuallise a sound based on one instrument or on several. A flugelhorn and soprano sound different from a trumpet and tenor. A violin sounds different to a viola, even playing the same notes etc. Musicians playing bass can often make the mistake of thinking that the double bass and electric bass, because they play the same notes on the same stave, are interchangeable. But they have a different effect due to timbre, attack and decay. If you want a piece to swing like your Frank Sinatra arrangement, then it is unlikely that the electric bass will work (there are thousands of recordings of bands playing Jazz using electric basses that don't swing and plaenty that do but we are talking in generlaisms). It doesn't mean that a performer can't make an aesthetic decision to use a different voice to achieve a different effect etc but, the straight answer is, no, an electric bass cannot do what a double bass does and vice versa. Sometimes close but rarely a cigar They are different instruments which have a lot in common just like a drummer and percussionist.

C = Ionian D = dorian E = phrygian F = lydian G = mixolydian A = aeolian B = locrian

Count Basie had Papa Jo Jones on drums...

Not sure if this is helpful but maybe it is only a theory because the 'rules' only apply to certain music in certain cultural settings so, arguably, they are always as wrong as they are right. 12 notes in a chromatic scale? Not if you play sitar. Harmony vs atonality etc. All theory is valid and helpful but never absolute. And it almost always comes after the music (are twelve tone composing and serial composition exceptions?). Great question.

They are perfectly symbiotic and playing both allows you the perspective of a musician instead or a bass player or guitarist.

Try the singing along with your solo idea; it will slow you down at first but you will find it more melodic. Also, someone once said to me 'deny yourself twice'. Play a phrase and then, when y9ou want to play the next one, don't. Then, when the next one comes into your heard, don't play it. Play the next one and you will have edited 60% of your 'diarrheoa' and it wil sound more melodic (this is all in the practice room, not on a gig )

Listen to Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Chambers, Ray Brown, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Reginald Veal Playing wise, play 4 beats to the bar and rarely stick any rhythmic kicks in. Too much 'fiddling' undermines the swing.

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Sounds great, Mike. Every time I hear that Sei bass, I want to get a fretted one myself (if I played that many notes, my intonation would let me down big time ). Always fancied the Flamboyabt 6 and even played one once at the Gallery but it never appeared!! Sounds like the hours of shedding have paid dividends.

I have old cassettes from years ago that reveal that offer irrefutable evidence that I was always crap

That went well

Pat Metheny - guitar Lyle Mays - piano/keyboards Michael Brecker - but, if the dead thing is a deal breaker, Chris Potter Don Alias - oh, he's dead too, so we'll have Eric Harland on drums Joni Mitchell - vocals and songwriting Bilbo - bass Oh - its Joni Mitchell's Shadows and Light band! How did that happen? Try again: Ultimate Jazz ensemble Me on double bass Jeff Watts on drums Joey Calderazzo on piano Branford Masalis on saxophones Oh b*gger. I did it again. If death was no barrier to regular rehearsal.... Me on bass Billy Higgins on drums J.R. Monterose on tenor BIll Evans piano

Hand injuries take forever to heal because you use them all of the time. I have had pains of one kind or another for years but you can manange a lot of difficulties by being aware of how you use your hands and by improving their grace and efficiency. Alexander Technique is useful as a starting point but also things like ergonomic keyboards and vertical mice can be helpful if you use computers a lot (a lot of hand pain is actually wrist trouble).

Someone heard one of these tracks yesterday and said it sounds like....... Sonny Rollins. It doesn't, of course, but, hell, I'll take it

....any Prog Rock tribute band is playing 'Regressive Rock'?

George Martin was, I understand, also responsible for ironing out a lot of the kinks in Beatles tunes!

I woudl recommend an approach along the lines of... 'Hey, Fred, you are not going to like what I am about to ask but do you know how uncomfortable your approach makes it for the rest of us and for the other people we have to deal with?

My action has been tweaked three times in 26 years... Pick-up height seems to get more attention in my universe, for some reason.

I have no problem with people drinking, I just find talking/reminiscing about it dull! (if you think about it, as a non-drinker, it would be like me talking about Jazz at a Folk club). I remember as a much younger man, going to the pub with the 'lads' and listening to them talk about how many pints they had and how sick Fred was and who did what stupid things.... it got [i]really[/i] dull after a while. I have been thinking about the 'other' potential angles and have some things I can explore if I can get the time (Christmas don't half eat into your free-time, doesn't it?).

I have an idea or two but am not sure if I can be arsed (it would be something I wouldn't actually like). Problem is, as a life long teetotaller, I don't like 'drunk' stories and alcohol and its associated activities bores me rigid ('oooh look, he did something stupid when he was drunk; - the anecdotal equivalent of 'You've Been Framed' - 'ooh, look. He fell over!!). I guess I could think of something left field as a 'critique' of the pictured behaviour?

You all realise, of course, that, as a moderator, I decided early on that it was inappropriate for me to win so whenever anyone voted for me, I deleted the vote. I left a few in there because I didn't want to draw attention to my ploy. I actually got 207 votes but am sworn to secrecy..... I shall never tell.