Recent content by Ethan Creveling

I listened to this record yesterday. It seems like a great start to begin transposing and improving my ear for hearing notes on the fretboard.

Just bought this book on Amazon, thanks.

I couldn’t agree more. I’m so appreciative of everyone’s input. It’s incredible that I got such great advice from passionate people that just enjoy sharing what they know.

I will look into that album, thanks for the suggestion.

Great advice, thank you

I will start transcribing this piece of music as well as other, more basic sheet music from a real book so I can better understand the harmony that is going on. Thank you for the advice

This makes a lot of sense. I did underestimate the amount of time that goes into creating a long, advanced solo like in Havona. I gather that in order to be able to play with even half the confidence that Jaco had, I'd need to transcribe and learn note for note a bunch of jazz standards and...

Mushroo, thank you so much for your gracious response and advice! I will print out the transcription and watch the YouTube video of Havonna. First I'll write out the notes, then try to write the chord changes out on the sheet. I agree with you that this is a daunting song to learn, especially...

This is a bit of a long winded question, but I’ll try to articulate everything I’m wondering. I was listening to “Havona” by Jaco Pastorius (big band) and I want to be able to create bass solos similar to how he does it in this song. I believe the key of this song is E, but as I was watching a...