GonzoBass

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1359711498' post='1959043'] ...he said it was a lot harder to read than Stravinsky. Really atonal and rhythmically complicated. [/quote] The closest I've ever got was being in the pit for Bernstein's "On the Town" but I do recall commenting at the time that some of it was "like playing cartoon music"...

Well put bassman.

[quote name='Mcgiver69' timestamp='1356988487' post='1916197'] Goodness it is Mr. Almighty Gonzo!! nice to see you around mate! [/quote] Always lurking here on the Theory page...

Do you have a copy of the sheet music to work with?

Well, there is the learning curve at the beginning (and you're on the right track there) but over time it becomes second nature. Much in the same sense that I don't think about the clutch any more when I'm driving...

[quote name='iconic' timestamp='1356106033' post='1906973'] I've been sitting here this afternoon playing a bit of Frank Sinatra, Fly Me to The Moon in A minor (C major) and this has got to be for me, one of the best and clever walking basslines I've come across thus far...[/quote] Have you checkd out The Major's Bass Boot Camp - Session 16 (particularly 16a and 16b)? [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/78653-the-majors-bass-boot-camp-session-16/"]http://basschat.co.u...amp-session-16/[/url] ...with thanks again to The Major.

I've heard it said that "luck" is where preparation meets opportunity...

Congrats to you, Mr. Bilbo. Nicely done! To paraphrase Ed Friedland... No tab, no tape, (no rehearsal), no problem. Thank you for representing the bass brotherhood so well. When we are often times underestimated or on the short end of so many a joke... I love these types of opportunities- The ones where you truly know you're alive.

[quote name='Ashwood1985' timestamp='1349865875' post='1831422'] "the sympathetic resonance of harmonically related strings may be desired for some songs, such as ballads. In these cases, a bassist can fret harmonically related notes. For example, while fretting a sustained "F" (on the third fret of the "D" string), underneath an F major chord being played by a piano player, a bassist might hold down the "C" and low "F" below this note so their harmonics sound sympathetically." Does anyone here actually do this?? [/quote] I doubt it.

[quote name='elom' timestamp='1349731644' post='1829910'] Thanks, that was the post that I had been looking for! And GonzoBass was the Hawaiian (funny how you remember details like that. from a post 4 years ago!) [/quote] ...might just be the only one here. lol

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1349167101' post='1822510'] Jonas Hellborg's arrangement of 'Blue In Green'[/quote] Excellent, this one! [quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1349167101' post='1822510'] Jeff Berlin's arrangments of 'Dixie'[/quote] Uh huh... "All Blues" can be done nicely as a rhythm-and-melody-at-the-same-time solo piece, if you transpose it to the key of A, which gives you open string possibilities. Just a suggestion... You might also want to look up Michael Dimin- [url="http://www.michaeldimin.com/"]http://www.michaeldimin.com/[/url]. He has some great chordal pieces that aren't too difficult to master, including "Autumn Leaves" and "The Shadow of Your Smile". He's still the king of the four string chords IMHO and a really nice guy to boot...

I recommend this site to my students and use it between musicals (which is when my reading tends to get rusty)- [url="http://www.practicesightreading.com/"]http://www.practicesightreading.com/[/url] I hope this helps.

[quote]The opening bar plays root, [i]natural 9[/i], 3, root.[/quote] I think that should read [i]"second"[/i] (the 9th would be an octave higher).

Always stretch. Before a set, between songs (if you can), after a set, even when you're not playing... Stretch. I found this site to be quite useful- [url="http://ergocise.com/wrists.html"]http://ergocise.com/wrists.html[/url]

Every time I start to think I might be getting somewhere on the bass, I give Jeff's "Crossroads" CD a spin. It always puts things back in perspective for me... Thanks for posting this Scott!

[quote name='Bilbo' timestamp='1338617521' post='1677196'] Simple. [/quote]

I could suggest Tony Franklin- [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Franklin_(musician"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Franklin_(musician[/url]), especially with "Blue Murder", for some great R&R fretless or any Boz Burrell- [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boz_Burrell"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boz_Burrell[/url] with "Bad Company" or "King Crimson".

Ha! Good one Bilbo...

A bit more mud in the water? Here's our chart- [attachment=104742:SatinDoll.jpeg]

I think she may be using a funky C to C# at the end of bars 1 & 2, rather than a B to C. Nice [s]rack[/s] [b]rake[/b] though (watch her right hand).

My strap is set so the bass is consistantly in the same position/place whether I am seated with it on my lap or standing.

The first rule of music applies here but I think I'd be more worried about this- [quote name='skampino' timestamp='1324078754' post='1470773'] [u][b]Guitar Bass[/b][/u] F minor F# octave (2 bars) [/quote]

Yes, 2-3 bpm had me scratching my head too...

[quote name='lowdown' post='1345146' date='Aug 18 2011, 10:51 PM']Hey - I Did "Bat Boy" in the West End London run about six years ago, also the Cast CD... That show is a read and half, and a great score. You must have had your hands full Gonzo - MD'ing and Bass playing, good one![/quote] Ahh yes, "Bat Boy, the Musical"... Murder, rape, incest, more murder, bestiality rape, another murder, a bestiality orgy, 23 dead cows (including a life size bleeding cow head), dead rats, rabbits and geese, stabbings, one guys slits his own throat, one guys burns to death in a slaughterhouse fire (set by his own mother), euthanasia (by the jealous drunkard doctor), lots of bats (of course), open drug use, rednecks, gallons of blood, faith healing, spelunking and even a guest apperance by the horned Greek god Pan, which is all wrapped around a nice moral message about tolerance and acceptance. ...and it's all set to music! I was lucky in that I was able to hand pick the band so I chose guys I had worked with in the past and had complete faith in. This gave me the luxury of "making the score our own" in a few places which made my MD role a lot easier. My directive to them was something like, "I don't need this score note-for-fugging-note." My logic being that; If there is a section/phrase/lick that is problematic, just give me something you can play confidently as long as it's true to the song. I tried this when conducting "Cabaret" with a bunch of "right brained" readers, "Let's just feel this part and get through it..." and they all looked at me as if I had three heads... The "Bat Boy Band"- Yours truly, Josh-drums, Glenn- Piano (he missed the "band in black" memo), Brian-keys/midi guitar/laptop, Loren-guitar [i]Conducting[/i] was a whole other challenge! It had to be done from on stage, about 10 feet in the air, with the cast and I having our backs to each other. Here is The Bat Cave or what the band liked to call- "Five musicians, an 88 key piano (including a bench), two additional keyboards, a laptop, a PA head, two guitars, a full drum kit, a bass, four amps, music stands, several effect pedals, Loren's Gawd damn stool, life giving fans (!), oh... and be sure to leave room for a singer/actor once in a while, all in a 10'x6' space." *Note the Fender guitar amp hanging from the rafters. A fun show! A lot of work, but a fun show!!!

[quote name='lobematt' post='1343053' date='Aug 17 2011, 02:10 AM']How did you guys get your first show?[/quote] My first musical was "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". The director knew me from several bands around town and explained that he was looking for someone to play the roll of "an 80s rock bass player". I remember thinking, "Wow...quite a stretch". This play is unique in that the musos are on stage and in character and the stage was the stereotype (almost a caricature) of a full blow rock production; Risers, light riggings, smoke, strobes... Everything a rock band could ask for! Needless to say, I had a lot of fun but was most taken by the small army of tech people who make these things happen and their spirit of working together to do so. It was quite a change from the nightclub/bar scene I was use to working in where the band is usually lowest on the totem. ...and we all know what rolls downhill. Next up was "Godspell" for the same theater troupe, "Jesus Christ Superstar" was a referal by the drummer for "Godspell" (which lead to a few orchestra Christmas gigs with the same organization), MD/Bassist for "Little Shop of Horrors", "On the Town" (which was a real [u]b!tch[/u] of a read!), MD/Conductor for "Cabaret", MD/Conductor/Bassist for "Bat Boy, the Musical" and now "Little Shop of Horrors" is back again.