Recent content by Paul Veltman

There's some wonderful advice here - some of which I've used in the past to get out of a 'bass' rut, or as one of the contributors more incisively says 'music' rut. And it never hurts to put the bass down for a week or so, and play 'bass' without it. Can you play whatever you whistle, hum, sing...

'Walking on the Moon' is a nice simple bassline. It's not quite the 'melody line' of the song, but it's so prominent, it might be fun for him to play.

Thanks jagajarvis, Like most of Jaco's signature tunes, Portrait for Tracy is fascinating for many reasons. I'm still trying to work out if it's a coherent single tune, or a technical 'etude', like JS Bach used to write. (Jaco took a lot of inspiration from Bach. Have a listen to Wanda...

Hi jagajarvis, It sounds great to me. I'm not sure what sort of feedback you are looking for, so will ask what it is about this tune that attracted you to it, what you have learnt from the process, where you think you might go next, and what sort of thing you feel is still a bit beyond your...