Recent content by late_boomer

ok, you thought I was insulting you, nope :) I was just giving you a quick heads up about that, umm, perspective. It's hilarious. It's crap. This isn't my "opinion", it's just ordinary fact that everyone knows who's actually studied music history, early music, modal counterpoint. thanks...

wow. That's not even wrong. That's not even on the map, not of this planet anyway. That's complete crap. well, if that's on Carol Kaye's site, and people who don't know any better are accepting that idiocy as authoritative, that would explain a lot about what gets posted here as "theory".

that would be pretty much the entire Louis Jordan catalog. As in Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Barnyard Boogie, You're Much Too Fat, etc etc etc

that's a whole world to explore but here's a few with the classic tunes -- Antonio Carlos Jobim -- Unknown (or Inedito, same disc released under different titles). This is the late-80s "New Band" w/ Jacques and Paula Morelenbaum, Daniel and Simone Caymmi, and Jobim's wife and kids...

jeez, this is just like the theory threads. A couple or three small dots of super glue is fine, it'll come right off when necessary with just a tap, or a little heat followed by a tap. Worst case actetone will take it right off -- that's "worst case" because acetone will also damage some...

well, pizzaz is entirely up to the conscience of the individual. Yeah, that's a simple part technically, harmonically, whatever. It's also perfect exactly as it is. If by "sax solo" you mean that riff between sections, the bass is silent there. My two cents, the thing to take from James...

No, it's just important for people in those, and similar situations, to be able to play in different keys well. That's not the same thing as just moving fingering patterns around. Open strings are an essential part of the bass, and specifically an essential part of "jazz" bass. The...

Larry Gales on Straight No Chaser, forty-something choruses, should have a pretty good handle on how he plays a Bb blues when I get this down. Edith And The Kingpin, the vocal, great intonation and phrasing practice, gorgeous tune Celia Cruz, La Sopa En Botella and a bunch of Jobim...

ha! I just dug out the record and checked. The upper Eb's are there, no question. But I don't think (well actually I'm sure at this point) it's Bootsy playing them. Sounds like a really muted guitar, just playing that one staccato note through that section. Once you realize it's...

Had to google Jamiroquai, wasn't familiar with Paul Turner. But I think most of this stuff is pretty much timeless and applicable to pop styles in general, especially funk/groove oriented stuff. It's how I approached teaching myself bass after a few decades of guitar playing, anyway. seems to...

sorry, no link, but it's in the Alan Slutsky James Brown book -- which I can't find at the moment, but yeah I remember that lick specifically because it was pretty much the hardest thing in the book (with frets it's awkward, on fretless more like impossible). the bit you're talking about is...