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Very nice and very well played. 👍

America from 'West Side Story'... Can easily be arranged for a rock band. 'The Nice' did a version years ago (although that was keyboard heavy). You have two vocalists, I'm sure they can manage it. Doesn't matter what style/genre the tunes are arranged for, anything from West Side Story is always a winner.

Another good source of material study is on YouTube. There are lots of scrolling transcriptions (with added chords). You can study the various players approach work to soloing over the different chord sequences (all instruments). A Ray Brown solo here.

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Yeah, the Parker Omnibook is great. If your treble clef reading is a struggle, there is a Bass clef version. A decent price as well. https://www.thedukesmusic.co.uk/charlie-parker-omnibook-bass-clef-instruments-edition.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgaf7kPaz5AIVwbTtCh2MzwreEAQYASABEgLM-vD_BwE

There are a few... I use Lemur iOS (have done for quite a while) with Neundo and it works great. You can set up your own templates for pretty much anything. The guy I assist uses it with Logic with no problems. https://liine.net/en/products/lemur/specifications Plenty of YouTube videos

Probably cycling to Marble Arch with his DB on his back and pipe in mouth...

About two years ago I was going through some old boxes and found an Ashtray cover for an old 1974 Hagstrom, Jazz Bass (Fretless). The Bass is long gone, sold in the mid 90's sometime. After discussing this with friend of mine from the States, he said he knew of someone looking for the same Hagstrom cover for his 70's Jazz Bass. I agreed that the guy could contact me if he wanted. He did and offered me £75 plus the postage to Canada, paid into my Paypal account - Which I accepted. Maybe just a case of right time, right place, I suppose. After all, it was just a piece of junk tin as far as I was concerned.

It really is a terrific film. Enjoy. 👍

Motion Picture.

Definitely my cup of tea - I love the WDR Big Band. It's great how they have the revolving door of guest artists too. Christian McBride guesting on 'Killer Joe' is a good one... Thanks for posting. 👍

'Round Midnight.

Pretty much as I work. Like you say, it can and does start to become "a theme-for-theme thing".

A couple of documentaries I really like and maybe worth checking out: The Wrecking Crew and The Buena Vista Social Club. And of course, The Blues Brothers.

I like to play through all the chord extensions (including inversions), and over the years, I found it to be great ear practise as well (picking out the intervals). But saying that, I recently went back to real basic, Triad arpeggios (on Electric and Upright), going up and down the neck in semitones. Only, this time around, singing the notes as I played them. Basic stuff, but good for warm ups ( chop wise, ear training and vocally). Although below is all major, I also go through all the different triads (maj/min/dim/aug etc...) Ascending, starting on the root, descending starting on the fifth. Major Arpeggios.pdf

Agree...👍 @Teebs Worth a look.

What a strange thread, tearing Guitarists a new one? I think there are three Guitar parts on Car Wash during the chorus' and verses. The intro has a couple of tracks playing Wah-Wah lines and another playing the high stops. Possibly the main line that the OP is talking about is just double stops. Root + Minor third, then Root + Major third. That part is panned on the left hand side, then there is a part panned on the right hand side and there might be another one in the middle, unless that is a Rhodes or whatever. (That OP chord consisting of Flat 7th/Major 3rd/Octave Flat 7th sounds odd to me. Maybe a reading Guitarist will pop in, who plays the tune and tell us the right notes...😁 Original Key below...I have snipped from the wrong point in the score - Bar 3&4 should be 1&2 and Bar 1&2 should be 3&4... (Minus the slurs and articulations). This is from an old score. Actually the full score, with the full Orchestration.

Marcus laying down Bass on a Gordon Goodwin Big Phat Band track.

Ah...That Guy was right on the money...

A legendary night. I was at that gig, (the recorded one), an amazing night of musicianship. Nathan East, Ricky Lawson, Bobby Lyle, Patches Stewart, Charles "Icarus" Johnson and a few others (names escape me). The support band during the first part of the evening... David Sanborn, Marcus Miller, Steve Gadd, Hiram Bullock, Don Grolnick... Two amazing bands for the price of one. It didn't get any better than that! 👍

A very usable sound design Synth... 'Iris 2' by iZotope. This is free with any purchase at PluginBoutique. There is plenty of stuff under a fiver there if you have a nosey around. Link... https://www.pluginboutique.com/articles/1494?gclid=CjwKCAjw7anqBRALEiwAgvGgm2bM_10xo_eIEmqU-S1YKDUFxLbztqQmqfV_j8NCpatn3wN3P5-VAhoC6ZQQAvD_BwE

That's exactly what someone from TB would like...

I've tried to stay away from singles on this thread but, Nathan Watts is so 'on it' on this track...

I got this when it was first released, It's terrific. The great David Foster on Piano. Marty Paich arranged the strings as well. David Paich (Toto) is his son.

I went the other way. I did the crossgrade from Cubase 9.5 over to Nuendo 8. This was a few months ago, when Steinberg also had the promotion push with 50% off software products. I think I paid about £165. The down side was it made my Cubase license invalid. You can open old Cubase projects in Nuendo, so no problem. I'm just about to upgrade to version ten of Nuendo and that is £171. So, all in all, not too bad to finally get to version 10. Cubase and Nuendo are both in a very good place these days with some amazing features.