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The Wiz

#2
practice a heck off a lot...take liberties with the lines, just play with the changes if you can't keep up with the reading...I had to play Grease in HS...it was the most grueling experience of my bass life. I had to play some rehearsals with a pick because my fingers blistered from all the practices.

I remember there where some crazy fills I couldn't read fast enough...If I would have know what I know musically now I would have just made up my own instead of playing the written line really crappy.

yeah so:

1) Practice
2) Practice
3) Amend the music if you know it will take you too long to learn a part and you have the skill and confidence to make such changes. (assuming the director doesn't mind)
 
#4
Hopefully, your R&B chops are there.
There are some very cool tunes from that show (& movie).

Good luck.
"Everybody Rejoice" was thrown in my lap for a High School thing (1975?)...since I was too dumb & naive to know any better, I listened for the changes & pretty much did my version of 'funky R&B'.
Years later, I heard that tune again & thought, "My God, did I ever butcher that thing"!
 
#9
Hey Clock.. Congrats! After I quit playing for many years, I got drawn back in by a local kids' theatre company. I'm now doing 2-4 shows a year with them. It's always a real challenge to get my reading chops back together. Theatre stuff is a blast because it's always different, from Johnny Cash to Seussical.

Anyway... dig in, enjoy it, and be part of the show!
 
#10
RDUB said:
Hey Clock.. Congrats! After I quit playing for many years, I got drawn back in by a local kids' theatre company. I'm now doing 2-4 shows a year with them. It's always a real challenge to get my reading chops back together. Theatre stuff is a blast because it's always different, from Johnny Cash to Seussical.

Anyway... dig in, enjoy it, and be part of the show!
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Thanks :) Yep, I was so out of reading music and doing anything with bass. Then they threw it on me my sight reading abilities and massive caluses have all come back. I hope I can do another show, it's hard work but it's good fun.
 

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