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I'm playing with a rag-tag crew of musically proficient work colleagues and students to raise money for a local charity. The setlist of cover songs was provided to us by the concert organizer (head of the charity), and the songs are all fairly simple pop tunes. Two examples: You've Got the Love...

I've considered starting a thread her for a while - given that today is my 55th birthday, why not?!! I've been on TalkBass for over 20 years, been posting my music online for about the same length of time, been playing since the mid-'80s. Anyway, here is the current group I am playing with - for...

Here's us hanging out on the I chord at a private party thing. Got any links to your band improvising together? This was after an audience-requested "Scarlet Begonias" (Grateful Dead)

This lesson dives head-on into improvisation on the bass guitar! Even if you've never tried before, this lesson will hopefully get your creative juices flowing.

Im 20 years old. I first picked up bass as my main instrument but was pushed into playing guitar soon after. I am in a band right now and i have recently been displaced from my position on guitar to a new place on bass. I have never played bass with a band before and I think I'm a bit lost on...

An extremely interesting interview with one of my absolute favorite bass players Bill Laswell. Especially his thoughts on improvisation, creating music and music as such: The Process: An Interview with Bill Laswell I very much agree with him too on those points.