BlueMarkerFumes

sorry if you can't read my writing (ran outta' staff paper), or there are mistakes, I normally write things in treble clef. But yeah, this should be pretty close, since there's a lot of improv in the song there are some variences but...um..I wrote in where the improv solos go. Thanks for asking this question it was fun to figure out this song. Just a side note..since I don't really know a whole lot about bass, I think you might have to move it up an octave if you don't have a 5 string.

[quote name='The Funk' post='34864' date='Jul 20 2007, 05:55 PM']I've heard people work their way through this classic at some of the funkier jazz or jazzier funk jam sessions around London. Does anyone fancy sharing some tips/advice/info on this tune for me?[/quote] um..hi, sorry if people get mad at me for reviving this post after a month. But I noticed it, and I know I'm a novice bassist, but umm..I had some free time, so I wrote this out as sheet music. I don't know if that would help you at all. But I have it, and I also added in the places where you should improv as well..um..so, if you want that, or if anyone else does, I can post it up here. Or if you don't like sheet music and just want tabs, I think I can change it into tabs (not so sure on that though since I've never written them before). So anyway..just trying to help.

Hi, I'm Mimi. I dropped by this forum looking for some info on bass playing and thought it looked like a really nice place. I'm completely new to bass, I actually started about a month ago, so I know nothing about nothing and am looking for all the advice I can get. My bass is a Dean Edge 4 string with a maple neck, it's not great but it's good enough for a beginner. Nice to meet you all!

I can read, transpose, and all that other nice stuff. I've been in various groups as a flute player over the last few years. I practice with a metronome because if I don't I get backhanded by my music director, all in all I'm musically qualified. Now, as to how much that helps with playing bass. Not all that much really. Seeing as I can only comfortably read music in treble cleff. I've been struggling to pick up bass for the last month (after I saw a really amazing jazz performance). And it seems like a lot of playing, at least in the beginning is having a feel for the music, and a good deal of natural rythm. I almost think having a really traditional music background is crippling for certain styles of music, like say, jazz. Where the syncopation is "swung" and counting does't really do you a whole lot of good in the traditional sense. Don' mean a thing if it aint got that swing... Jazz improv also seems to become infinitely more confusing when you bring theory into it. "Use a F-7 then chord change to a E-9 in the 5th measure blah blah blues scale blah blah" is a lot harder to get your head around (at least to me) than "Make it sound good".