Range of dynamics, use of space, the effects of different ranges on the body of sound, the control over how you voice your chords, listening and answering, creating and supporting melody. It takes playing with people who are better than yourself.or I should say, more musical than yourself, to learn just what it takes to feel the music rather than read/run the changes.įind someone and people who are challengingly better than yourself and learn about what you need not to get in the way of the music. I shouldn't complain, the opposite would be worst if they didn't want to play with me, I would complain more than I do.Įvery situation requires you to get something unique from yourself and your instrument. They want to play, they want to play with me, I can't reject them, what can I say ? What should I do ? Can I say I don't need a bass player ? If I play the 6 string it won't be consistent if someone plays more the tablet than the bass. With the flautist when I play the 6 string guitar, he dislikes it because something is missing. When I'm comping, I can't forget that 7th string. The guy can play and he's cool, I confess that in another tune he loved soloing while I was playing bass lines, that was nice. The other day we started to play All The Things You Are and a double bass player (a professional one) came and added himself with his tablet (for All The Things You Are ? Seriously ?), without his tablet the guy could really play, why did he bring it ? There were only a flute, a funky drummer, the bass guitar and myself. I had to play something between comping and soloing with my limited skills to keep the tune. So we play the simplest tune of the world, I won't use the 7th string but I will because he's f****** lost, I help him, everything is destroyed when I take a solo, no consistence, the bass plays what it comes, its player is looking at his tablet. ![]() We call a tune and the bass player takes his tablet to see how it is, I don't want him to play and I can't say it because it's so humiliating to say it. ![]() When I pick the guitar, there is always a bass player who wants to play. He wants me to bring the 7 string because it's more comfortable for him.Įven if my words don't show it, I'm quite humble, kind of shy, polite. My friend brings me to jam sessions, they say it's jazz but it's something else. When I've got one of them in my hands, I know what it's about like when I'm eating a sandwich I know it's not a soup. I don't feel lost when I play 6 string guitar, 7 string guitar, 4 string bass and 5 string bass. ![]() I've played with a flautist for a couple of weeks now, whe play tunes in duets, he likes this because bass and chords are played with the same instrument sounding like a bass and a guitar at the same time, it can be done with a 6 string guitar but it's less "efficient", in fact the 7 string is the easiest way when you don't play very well. I love playing the 7 string guitar, it is not a very difficult instrument, in certain points it's easier than a 6 string guitar. I want to share my experience, my frustration.
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