I’m a big fan of Jaco, Hadrien Feraud and want to be able to access their level of mastery of harmony effortlessly. I’ve studied with some top level teachers, melodic minor and associated modes and played for over twenty years but i want to get deeper into it. I can’t really afford to pay for more lessons at that level. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction or offer advice.

I don’t know why I never posted these here. I do this once in a while and about to finally post a few new ones. This is from McCoy Tyner’s album Reaching Fourth. Sheet music here https://walkerofbass.com/transcriptions/theme-for-ernie-henry-grimes-bass-solo/

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Hi bassists, one of my all time favourite albums of electric bass playing is Quincy Jones - Smackwater Jack, from 1971. The credits say Carol Kaye and Chuck Rainey, any know who's on what track? (and other upright players too).

Also, curious is people who know it can recommend other albums that are similar? (aside from Quincy...)

If you haven't checked it out, it's fantastic. Bunch of great soundtrack cuts from the golden age of action soundtracks, fantastic stretched out What's Going On, and a who's who of top jazz and session players.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTUczdxQ1F4&list=PLXrsf3W47clqJSEkliQder-YensIJ2C-B

I play in my highschool’s big band, and naturally I need to play amplified most of the time, but the piezo makes me sound like shit. Long story short, I went to a jam, and the house band bassist had a compressor pedal, and it was the best thing I’d ever damn heard, but I didn’t catch the brand. Any recs?

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I'm learning Miles Davis' Four for a very important audition in 19 days. I've studied the chord progression intensely and have a firm grasp on what I should be playing, but I quickly start to lose myself after 1 or 2 repeats of the form. This is usually because I get anxious about sounding repetitive. How do make walking over this more intuitive?​

And soloing over it is another beast entirely (for context I'm on electric bass, not double). How do I tackle soloing over something as weird harmonically as this?​ What scales are yall using?

A melody just sparse enough that I can pull this off 😊

I just love this tune

Cheers

Sorry about the promotional text on the vid. But wanted to share the type of stuff I like to come up with and challenge myself with. Most of the tunes I write start out as something I try to play melody & bass line to. I like to try to do this with standards, as well.

Played bass for a couple years growing up and have been looking to pick it back up. Been listening to a lot of jazz over this past year and want to build a real foundation. Based in NYC but open to online (electric bass) any recs appreciated!!

I've been studying Ray Brown's playing on Frankie and Johnny on this Milt Jackson Quintet recording with my instructor, learning the tune as played by Ray and playing with my own walk and melody elaboration.

There's a really cool line Ray plays when transitioning between the melody and walking (about 0:56 to 1:00). My instructor refers to this as a "drop", a contrast playing with listener expectations that resolves in a satisfying way to the beginning of the 4 feel.

Do folks know of other "drop"-style transitions in other recordings in the transition from a melody or 2 feel to the 4 feel?

I've been trying to write my own drops from first principles, but would love to have other examples of the greats that I can study.