Recent content by CameronCrowley

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    What's my first step to learn jazz?

    I think having other people to play with and feed off of is crucial because it's such a deeply improvisational style- and it's hard to pigeonhole "jazz" as any one particular thing, anyhow. That being said I find the times when I'm most enthusiastic and absorbing vocabulary and language is when...
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    Bass guitar with upright like tone?

    I have a Spectorcore 4 Fretless with a semi-hollow body and piezo pickup that I used to have flatwounds on that worked really well for quasi-upright sounds in small jazz groups. I don't play a lot of acoustic jazz particularly, but it got the job done very well. Also works wonderfully for folky...