TKenrick
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Hell of a player, that Jorge. Saw him with Julian Lage a while back and the level of musical telepathy between them was incredible.
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I guess you're referring to the Joe Dart/Paul Jackson/Me'shell Ndegeocello/Stuart Zender/just about every other funk bassist trill (I also hear it referred to as a 'shake'). This is the most gloriously silly example I can think of that has trills on almost everything: The thing that I find makes a huge difference is this: it's in the arm, not the fingers. Take your fretting hand thumb off the back of the neck and use your elbow to generate the rapid back and forth sliding motion. Forget trying to be too accurate or polite with it to start with, it'll take a while to feel like you've got it under control and then you can gradually refine the movement.
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Is this difficult to play? Is it unnecessarily complicated?
TKenrick replied to bass_dinger's topic in Theory and Technique
Instant red flag for me right there. Yes, it's hard to read/play, because a human wouldn't come up with some of those ideas (bar 11!). The main thing is not the unnecesary complexity, more that it lacks musicality - as @itu said above, there's no discernable bassline for the listener (or even the bass player) to latch onto as it lacks rhythmic or melodic repetition. My advice would be to ask the MD for a chord chart and do your own thing, starting with the bare minimum of accompaniment - people (and machines, it seems) often think that 'funky' = make it as busy as possible, but that's rarely the case. -
'Tis the season... Vulfpeck - 'Christmas in L.A.' bass transcription A student brought a transcription they'd found online to a lesson, and the beaming was so wonky that it made reading the thing 10x harder than it needed to be, so I did my own chart. Some nice harmony in here, too.
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I've retired from double bass playing, so this has to go. Bought in 2014ish from the US, it's seen lots of home use but hardly ever taken on gigs. I have little to compare it to, but it's always felt very comfortable even on long practice sessions. Small chip on the top side near the adjuster which I've done my best to photograph. Rehaired last month by Adrian Warrick strings in Byfleet. Ebony frog, abalone inlay, ebony adjuster, 69.5cm length, includes case. It's the satin black model on the Finale site : https://www.stringemporium.com/finale-bass-bows.htm Current new price is $480 including shipping, not sure what the import duty would be. I'm asking £230 delivered to mainland UK, if you want to come and try it then I'll knock money off for collection. -
Another jazz one rescued from my Sibelius folder that time forgot. Ray Brown playing very simply (for him, at least) on an F blues, almost everything sits in half position: Full transcription here: Ray Brown F Blues transcription
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Welcome, Joe! A question re: your lessons - has your teacher asked you about your goals, and then given you a plan for how he might help you get there? Lessons should definitely be a two-way discussion, but if you feel like you're having to steer things in a particular direction then maybe the balance of effort is not as it should be (if we all knew what to work on and how to practise it then we wouldn't need lessons, right?).
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Not a transcription (sorry!), but a lot of my students seem to get easily overwhelmed by set lists for dep gigs, so I made this: Yes, it's common sense, but it's amazing how much time I've wasted running through songs that I've already gigged 100+ times.
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Has been sitting on a shelf for over a year so needs a new home where it'll get played! Boxed with instructions. Some scratches on the exterior but otherwise in perfect working order. £140 £120 securely packed and tracked to UK mainland addresses. -
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Great pedal but I don't have much use for it these days. No box or manual, but minimal scratches/chips to the body as it's never left the house. £65 securely packed and tracked to UK mainland addresses.
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As many have said, he was - for me, at least - the greatest of the greats. I saw him with Hiromi at Ronnie Scotts in 2015ish and was so taken with his focus and ferocity that I immediately bought a ticket for the next night's show so I could do the same thing all over again. Hard to pin down my favourite AJ contributions as his output was so vast and so diverse, but the Michel Camilo (One More Once, Rendezvous) and Chaka Khan (Naughty, What Cha Gonna Do For Me) albums are the ones I keep coming back to. Certainly a man of principles who stuck to his guns in spite of musical trends. Just dug this out and it's possibly even more relevant now than it was in 1992:
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Everyone bangs on about the Joni/Jaco era (and rightly so, it was fantastic), but Max Bennett played some great stuff on that record and I feel like he gets very few column inches. 'Edith and the Kingpin' is another great performance.
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It's been a minute, sorry. I dug up a transcription I did years ago of John Patitucci demonstrating walking bass on Stella by Starlight and synced it with the clip. Some very useful vocabulary in there that can be stolen for your own purposes: You can download the transcription PDF here: John Patitucci - Stella by Starlight
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Aguilar TH500 head now £320 posted - *SOLD*
TKenrick replied to TKenrick's topic in Amps and Cabs For Sale
On hold!
