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Thank you everybody. Don K., sorry, "DB side of things", what's DB?

Hey all! I'm confused. And I'll preface this (because I can't resist a pun) that this is really a minor thing... In a very simple F7 jazz blues progression you can play: F7 - Bb7 - F7 - F7 Bb7 - Bo7 - F7 - D7, etc So lets say in bar 7 I arpeggio up: F A C Eb, Then I scalewise walk down the 8th...

Thanks all that was all so super helpful!

Lol, as I am self taught so far, that is very useful information that I'll remember! But if I'm not slavishly playing off sheet music and just working with a chord sheet, I'll ask again, how do I choose?

...Also, I do try and transcribe bass lines from recordings using Capo to isolate the bass track but to be honest it's sometimes hard for me to figure out which register exactly the bass player is using...

Heh, generally I'm working off of 8th generation photo copies of big easy note chord sheets! Or it will be a piano based sheet music that will have Cs and Ds lower than I can play so I just transpose up. But a good example for me would be "The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" which is usually in F...

Hey! I'm a pretty new bass player with a real basic question. I've been lucky enough to actually be playing bass in a small group (drummer, piano, guitar, accordion), old songs, cowboy songs, etc. I'm just doing the real simple chord arpeggios but is there a rule of thumb about where on the bass...

I hope it's OK if I post this question in this forum. It's a question concerning musical notation as it relates to repeats. I am using Guitar Pro to notate bass lines for <ahem> Polka songs! As you may or may not know, Polkas do a lot of repeats. For instance one song I'm working on has a 16...