Recent content by juanjabass

It is a real shame. As far as I found out, cruise gigs were perhaps one of the easiest ways to enter the professional circuit and quit amateur playing "just for a beer and a taxi"...forever. It seemed that almost no word of mouth was needed. I myself got a call for an audition just three weeks...

---It's a pity. I am still working hard and daily on my sight-reading...to an uncertain goal-date. I even got subscribed to sightreadingfactory.com, which I strongly recommend to everyone: tons of random sightreading exercises bumping in front of you, one right after the other. As you finish...

You mean Covid, I suppose?

As far as I know, for the night big theater 'tuxedo-thing' show-band, production-band, orchestra-band or whatever they might call it, a strong sight-reading is required. For the 'short-trousers-aloha-shirt' reggae-thing by the pool in mid-afternoon or whatever in lunch-time, perhaps that is not...

---Not the case of the Stagg and its rebranded Harley Benton for Europe (they're just the same EUB), and the Thomann web read 105 cm, which equals to 42".

---The best thing you could do, and the best decision you took. I remember an audition several years ago for a professional band with 2 albums and a tour to come. The audition consisted of playing their last album from beginning to end, in that order. Did fine and got the gig. But for an...

Mark Smith from Talkingbass.net leaves wife and two little kids to join the ship!!! In this clips he shows what does he pack with him....how he arrives and joins the ship...his cabin...it's worth to have a look at it!!!

---Thanks, JKos!!

---Forgive me....what does 'SN' reading stand for?