standards

Those interested in learning or teaching walking bass may have come across "The Low Down, vols 1 & 2" by Danny Ziemann (@dkziemann). Since I have not seen any review about it on TB, I thought I would give it a shot. I have not purchased the vol 1, which deals with the fundamentals of walking...

Hey all my uprighteous brethren. I usually post in the electric bass forums, but I was hoping of you might advise me on this. Could you recommend a source of transcriptions of bass lines for some obvious jazz standards? Things like "It Had To Be You" "The Way You Look Tonight"- the super well-...

I’ve owned an American Standard for years and have wondered why the American Standards and King Moretones were made with a longer string length compared to other basses? Since the basses were first produced in the mid 1930’s, did it have anything to do the use of gut strings? Or was the thinking...

Hey there, So I've recently started a jazz standards trio with a guitar player and drummer. We're looking at playing some restaurant/coffee shop type gigs, background music essentially. I've been playing jazz for a good bit and am currently pursuing a jazz degree in college at the minute but...

Hi, all. In the back of Mark Levine's "Jazz Theory" he has a repetoire list, including a bunch of tunes he says, "Don't go to NYC without knowing most of these." So I was wondering, were you to put together a setlist titled "Any serious player of R&B/funk must know these tunes," what would it...

I'm looking to install string trees on the necks of two of my builds. Both have J-replacement necks: one is a Moses Graphite and the other is Warmoth. My question is if there are any standard measurements to use for determining where between the D and G strings to place a round/fender-style...

A 2017 American Professional series Precision. 1800 Euro = 2200 USD Is this neck-pocket gap within acceptable standards? To me it just looks stupid, sloppy and silly. I know it does not affect play-ability, but I returned it. Shop said it is within acceptable standards.. Well..not mine. The...

Unless I've been out if the loop, the description of the pickups in the blurbs for the MIM standard p and j as "modern" is relatively recent. IIRC until a while ago they were described as "vintage" (which is admittedly fender's go-to word for anything that is not obviously modern). Are they the...

Their set list would probably look like this. Autumn Doggies All the Doggies you are Take the Doggie Train Stella by Doggielight On Green Doggie street So What Doggie

I have gig coming up in a Cuban restaurant playing 'Latin jazz'. I know a lot of jazz standards and many latin tunes wrtiten by jazz guys but not so many writen by South American musicians. The band leader mentioned 'Sabor' which I don't know. I have a done some salsa gigs and have studied those...

ive been playing bass for something like 14 years now and I never bothered to learn bass clef or how to read sheet music when playing bass, I did however play alto sax for like 7 years before deciding I hated it and realizing bass is for me, as such i can read treble clef... but ive always had a...

How's everyone doing today? I was just playing through one of my all-time favorite songs, "Afro Blue", and got to wondering what were some favorite standard songs that my fellow TB members enjoy. No genres discouraged, if you consider it a "standard" in any way, shape, or form, then let me hear...

Feeling this massive itch to do this...here is my goal, background and plan Goal I want to open up the local scene to new jazz songs that eventually, everyone knows (I will stop short of calling them "standards"), but are original and by local artists, and get played a lot locally. I have no...

I was reflecting the other day that all of our jazz standards in our set list for my trio and quartet are old standards -- great stuff -- Miles, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Horace Silver, Charles Mingus, Errol Gardner, Jobim, if you go later, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Eddie Harris...

I'm looking at possibly getting a new upright in the coming six months and have been looking into the New Standards. Most of what I've seen written here on TB refers to New Standards produced while Arnold Schnitzer was involved with the company. Can anyone give me any feedback on the more...

'Pretty sure I have not posted this workbench here; someone asked if they could get another look at it. Here are couple of vintage American Standard basses on "the rack"- one getting a new 41 1/2" D heel European maple neck and the other getting some internal love. The horizontal section rotates...

Hi, I normally don't play jazz, sometimes swing and walking bass lines, but not really jazz songs. Anyway, I've been asked if I can help the son of a friend try and get ready for 9th grade jazz band. Any suggestions where I should start? I was thinking basic chord tones, so he could read...

Just curious -- a lot of us hold 70s Fenders in high regard, even though some were lemons and others gems. The '08 ('12?) -'16 American Standard line has been hailed as some of Fender's best bang-for-your-buck MIA. Do you guys and gals think this now-discontinued series will see and achieve...

Hey all, Does anyone know of any more modern trios/quartets/etc that are doing some jazz standards? The best thing I came across so far was Hank Jones/Jimmy Cobb/Christian McBride (West of 5th album) - it sounds "fresher" compared to, say, Miles' version of Stella by Starlight. I know more...

Pretty straight forward here. What are some jazz and funk artists/groups/songs that you feel are essential material for every bass player to know? For example: Jaco Pastorius (Artist) / Weather Report (Group) / The Chicken (Song). Looking forward to everyone's input! Thanks!

Crisper snares, smaller, higher-pitched toms, lighter cymbals...

Where do I find bass line transcriptions for Dean Martin, Connie Francis etc.

Hi all, I wanted to learn some jazz standards in a way - that when someone will call a standard during jam session I will be able to make bass line to this tune. I have some problems, because there are a lot of standards and usually they have quite a lot chord changes in them. After learning...

Could someone please help me find and link me jazz standards recorded in the time signatures 9/8 or 9/4

I'm mainly a guitarist/drummer who plays bass in a couple bands, but rarely practices outside of band practice. Since I play drums and guitar fairly well I feel like I've been able to fake my bass playing pretty well, but I've recently decided to get more serious about bass. I feel like I have...

At one of the old biker saloons on the local club strip, there's a sign on the stage for the musicians: "NO MUSTANG SALLY -- THE BARTENDER WILL CUT YOUR POWER." Hear hear, I say. For anyone who's played a few years of gigs doing covers in any genre, there are a few tunes that are either...