Mike

Something that really helped with my intonation on both fretless and double bass was to use organ drones - literally a few minutes of an organ playing a C, for example, and playing through scales, arpeggios, melodies with the C for constant reference. Really highlights any intonation problems. These aren't the ones I have but there are some here: [url="http://www.2reed.net/awesome.html"]http://www.2reed.net/awesome.html[/url]. Also some others here: [url="https://www.idrs.org/multimedia/midi/PUB/Drones.htm"]https://www.idrs.org/multimedia/midi/PUB/Drones.htm[/url] Good luck!

Great thread, Richard.

Yep, all about starting slow. "River people" by Weather Report is a good track to work on octave movement.

Nice lick. Thanks buddy. Look forward to crowbarring that in too many times on my next jazz gig. Great blog, thanks!

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