Solo Bass gigs!

At my high school, I am famous for my bass playing. I'm not especially good, but no one else at our school is good at all, so people think that I'm like a god when I play Anyway, I have gotten asked to play at 3 "gigs". 1 of them just me and my drummer, the other 2 just solo bass I was kind of dumbfounded when I was asked to do them, because, I mean, who likes SOLO BASS besides bass players? but anyway, I was like "sweet". My set is actually very cool, so I'm very excited. I just thought you guys would be interested to know about this occurrence, and I was also wondering if anyone has done similar gigs to these? How were they?

 

You killed my father! wait a minute...

 

Here's my tentative set (I'll edit any changes) (not necessarily in order)

1. The Awakening (yes the Les Claypool one but I added so much that it's totally mine)
2. Southbound Pachyderm
3. Playground (original)
4. Me Gusta (original)
5. Charlie brown theme W/ Looper, o yeah
6. Improv slap thing in Bb (Catchy title, I know )
7. A bunch of flea solos I copped and integrated all together
8. Hendrix national anthem (on bass...sexy)
9. Anesthesia (modified, of course )
10. Country Music
11. Amazing Grace

They're all masterfully segued together, so the different songs are not really...different songs.

I estimate that it will take about 45 minutes. Then I'll figure out something else to do

Yes I am addicted to smileys

 

Good idea. I'll learn that.
Now to really get their butts off their chairs and their jaws on the ground: how about this?

Beastly

Actually, I wonder if there's any genius over in the tab forum that could transcribe that...

I would honestly consider picking out parts of that for the show.

 

Well, I had the gig w/ the drummer on Saturday. It went really well. I did the first about 35 minutes of my set without problems, when I saw this guitarist that I've jammed with before in the crowd. He was pretty good, so I asked him if he wanted to play, and he said he would love to. He ran home and got his amp and guitar while I played Country Music. When he got back and set up, I leaned over to him and said "E minor pentatonic" Our drummer counted off the song (fast) and when just went for it. We played about a solid 20 minutes just in Em Pent and totally rocked the place. Then went into this funk slap chord progression that I told him in beetween the songs, and totally got down. Then, of course I did a sweet little bass solo and we ended. The place went crazy. Definitely the coolest show I've ever played. I was amazed at how well we communicated through our playing and eye contact. And guess what? I finally found a guitarist!

 

Man that gig inspired me so much to do live improv. I'm thinking of going Les on everyone and doing an entire gig improv w/ drums and guitar. Scary, I know. Brilliant or suicidal?

 

Which explains its absence at the show.

 

I don't see how you could do it w/o the looper. You gotta have the G-5th-G underlying part and the high G-A-B part over it.

 

o ya. I forgot that I could tap it. Getting both of those rhythms at once would be tough tho. But screw that, I've got a looper!! HAHAHA!!!

 

I just learned some new pieces to the set:

Amazing Grace (highly modified)
Country Music (only some parts, still working on it)

any more essential solo bass pieces? Someone said that I should check out some classical cello suites, but I haven't found any good ones.