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Old 07-07-2009, 03:00 PM
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{Pac or Chef, perhaps you want to move this to a different section?}

Hey all,

Was hoping to brainstorm about choosing an electric piece for an upcoming audition (this will be a double - upright and electric).

So I'm trying to think of something that would include melody, bass function work (a part really in the pocket) and some slapping...

Also thinking more low-level pro vs. a Jaco or Victor Wooten kind of thing. I'm frankly stronger on upright.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts
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Old 07-07-2009, 09:08 PM
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Check out Brian Bromberg. His album Downright Upright is chock-full of killer groove tunes, and there are some solo-upright pieces on his equally-phenomenal albums "Wood" and "Wood II".

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Old 07-07-2009, 09:34 PM
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Thanks Lee, but I'm looking for electric ideas, not upright. Thanks though!
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Old 07-08-2009, 03:41 AM
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Doh, my apologies, I read "stronger on upright" and thought you were looking for a doghouse piece. Bromberg does a LOT of electric work too, but it seems to move between the "widdly-widdly" and the smooth jazz. He's got a KILLER arrangement of "September" off of "You Know That Feeling" though, and his originals "Hero" and "Joe Cool" are pretty good too.

If you're not looking for stuff in the Jaco vein (I'm a big fan of Havona or Come On, Come Over m'self... *shrug*), maybe you could look into finding old-time soul tunes (think Bill Withers or The Drifters, etc) with a simple melody, make it needlessly complicated by learning the melody via harmonics on the D and G strings, and figure out how to put sparse bass movement down via the E and A? Tunes that might work for that (you'd have to fiddle with the keys though to get the melody to 'lay' right on the harmonics) would be "Use Me", "Under The Boardwalk", "Ain't No Sunshine", etc.
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Thanks, I appreciate your detailed response. It's not that I'm not a fan of Jaco in any way - it's just that I need a piece that more digestible quickly...but I'll re-listen to Havona etc.

Thanks again for your insight
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What kind of gig?

How about a chord melody of a jazz standard?
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