Studying About Bass/Double Bass Session Musicians

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Liam Lewis

Mar 18, 2022
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Hello, my name is Liam Lewis and I am currently on my final project in college and I have chosen to look into being a bass/double bass session musician.
I am using this forum as primary research and was hoping if you can give me any information about being a session musician, what kind of problems people have run into during recording sessions, what is the most common genre people have asked for in recordings and if different basses/double bass sound better for different genres and why. If you have any other information to add please do, it would be much appreciated.

P.S. This is my first post in a forum so I don't really know what to do or say.
 
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Liam Lewis said:
Hello, my name is Liam Lewis and I am currently on my final project in college and I have chosen to look into being a bass/double bass session musician.
I am using this forum as primary research and was hoping if you can give me any information about being a session musician, what kind of problems people have run into during recording sessions, what is the most common genre people have asked for in recordings and if different basses/double bass sound better for different genres and why. If you have any other information to add please do, it would be much appreciated.

P.S. This is my first post in a forum so I don't really know what to do or say.
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Recording session work can be notoriously difficult to break into. Unless you are a wunderkind, it might take years to get to the the requisite skills, knowledge, and connections before you get to the point of pulling in enough income to sustain yourself. So, be prepared to study, and work live gigs, anywhere and everywhere, for a while.

Things that are important in the studio apply to music anywhere you play it; good sound & time, intonation, the ability to read standard notation as well as chord charts/sketches. Also, you should be able to convincingly cover a wide variety of styles of music. Playing the double bass, you may get called upon to do some roots country, jazz, or orchestral music with a string section.

The thing about the studio is that there is "no place to hide". Every note and sound that comes out of your instrument is under a microscope, so make sure your equipment is working perfectly, and that you can execute what you are called on to do.
 
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