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Seems like a bizarre idea to me. If bands have properly prepared charts, there is no reason why anyone should be unable to do any tune/gig at a moments notice. If you haven't, you are reliant upon a concensus view as to what the song should sound like, which version you are familiar with and whether or not the singer can do stuff in that key. In my experience, the result is chaos. If you have no charts, rehearse. If you can't rehearse, have charts. Some of the best music I have ever played is music I have never heard before I played it. (PS Although I have played a few of them in my time, I know none of Jonesies list of tunes (which looks very Rock-centric to me). A Soul band will have a different go to list, as would a Funk band, a Punk band and Pop band etc etc).

Here we go. All I could think of were rabbits..... https://soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/run-rabid-run-reprise

I would recommend this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miles-Davis-Classic-Albums-Audio/dp/B004UVCOZ4/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1420647089&sr=1-1&keywords=miles+davis+20+cd++box+set

You could spend the rest of your life learning them

Index and ring finger are the same length (middle finger is longer).

Mine is orchestral.

Starter Pack!! Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue Oliver Nelson – Blues and the Abstract Truth Charles Mingus – Ah Um Joe Henderson – So Near, So Far Bill Evans – Sunday Night at The Village Vanguard Dave Brubeck – Take Five Duke Ellington – Such Sweet Thunder Wynton Marsalis – Standard Time Vol. 1 John Coltrane – Blue Train/Giant Steps/A Love Supreme Count Basie – The Atomic Mr. Basie

Just a quick response to the comments about reading; to be a proficient sight reader takes years and is a skill that needs constant attention.

Did an audio download of mine yesterday and there was a part missing (I get that occasionally) so I will have to do it again buy, otherwise, I am there.

HOW you make sense of it is up to you but it's fantastic that you do. Good work.

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1419266281' post='2638154'] I think it might be this. During the solo Sadao Watanabe's face is pricelss. Top, top band as well. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu7S8wRcRNU[/media] [/quote] That's it.

Try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvUNaegKBUU

Dad got my vote. Just thought it had more of the image in it than the others.

I have a Berlingo also. Feckin' hate it. Gets the gear in easily but no acceleration and it fugly as sin. The uncoolest car in Christendom. Best I had was a Toyota Surf but it blew up (fortunately without the bass in it).

Clockwork Angels and Roll The Bones - Rush I go back there once in a while and always think, I preferred it when......

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1419341056' post='2638911'] You like more than one drum with your bass. [/quote] I guess I do!

My uncle worked down the pit. I think that makes him a relative miner. Seriously, the relationships between notes are defined by the harmony being used and a chromatic scale has no harmony per se so the relationship between the notes would not be termed minor or major or inverted etc. If there are chords involved, that changes everything and the A - C relationship becomes a sharp nine, an inverted sixth and a minor third, depending on the context. S'complicated

I like drums and I like bass but I don't like Drum and Bass. Go figure.

I have never played a venue BIG enough to accommodate aband that size.

I am a Jazz musician and we never have to play the same thing once. I have used a music stand every gig and have done for the last 30 years. Never done me any 'arm. I also do covers gigs when there isn't any real work around and I use a music stand there to because I don't know any tunes. What makes oi larf is that on the two covers band gigs I do, the charts are so poor, I may as well not bother and end up jamming the whole thing

Jack DeJohnette would do a whole gig on just a music stand.....

I had heard AJ with Al DiMeola on 'Land Of The Midnight Sun' and 'Casino' but, for the me, the 'woah!!' moment came when I bought a sale LP (yes, vinyl) from HMV in Oxford St. of a band called 'French Toast'. The band included AJ, Michel Camilo, Stve Gadd/Dave Weckl, Lew Soloff (trumpet), Peter Gordon (french horn), Jerry Dodgion – alto sax, Sammy Figueroa – percussion and Gordon Gottlieb – percussion. For the uninitiated, that's one HELL of a band. The LP included the track 'Why Not' performed with horns and a tune I transcribed called Joe Cool. A massively tight band. I then got Camilo's Suntan trio recording and that was AJ at his best. Strangely, I recently got hold of a double live cd of Steve Khan, AJ and Dennis Chambers called The Suitcase which has some major AJ work including some rare solos. The best I think I ever heard from him, though, is a youtibe video of a young (27-28?) AJ with Sadao Watanabe Live at The Boudokan with a Dave Grusin led Jazz orchestra. The quality of the video is appalling but Jackson plays an absolute blinder. His solo starts at around 5.40 and you can see that AJ is really 'in the zone' and we are wondering what would have happened to the bass if he had been less reticent.

<p>From where I am standing,you're supersonic

There is also a lot to be said for new strings. I am not good at changing them on mine and hadn't changed strings for many years until fairly recently. When I did, I really noticed a massive difference in attack and complex passages seemed to leap out a lot more than the did on old, dead strings.

Here is my entry for December. No basses or guitars, just drums, percussion, vocalising (not singing) and my debut on soprano saxophone (don't get excited). Not a great recording and I have to admit it is rushed and some of it should have been redone (sax id poorly played and poorly recorded) but time and a sore lip militated against any more investment in this one!! Anyway, a bit of fun and some experimenting. https://soundcloud.com/robert-palmer-1/fire-works