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Depped for a pro Pink tribute band at a great venue in Newcastle. Here’s a little headstock footage of the one “bass solo” esque moment plus a rocking end to the song. FullSizeRender.MOV

Yup - except it was a mad big band arrangement so knowing the actual Sir Duke was of previous little help unfortunately!

Last night I was depping for a NE based big band - it was an absolute roast sight-reading these charts having never seen / heard them before! Still I managed to quite myself pretty well! SSBB Sr Duke.mp4

I think maybe I then bought this? Who knows if it's the same cab (he has three!), either way great comms, super quick delivery (cab packed great) and item exactly as described. I'm a very happy bass player, what a cab. Thanks Rob, another fab member of this great community of bass players.

I love crotchets and training wheels. Knowing about these has kept me in work as a professional musician who can read music, understand theory and ‘hear’ well. It’s all part of the same thing, they can’t be separated out and certainly I’d be wary of denigrating them so readily in public!

You’re right about the chromatic alterations but nothing in this sequence suggest a change of key so best to not approach it like that when you think about it because you lose sight of the bigger picture - I.E it’s just a slightly cheeky chord sequence in the key of G major. Chord iii is pretty common actually; perhaps less common is chord three as dominant chord rather than a minor chord. Chord IV going to IV minor is a very common alteration popularised by the Beatles - it’s just a more interesting way of getting back to the I chord (G in this instance). So really its ultimate just a I - IV chord sequence (very common!) with a little variation to make it a bit more interesting to the listener.

THIS