I got a call from a one the more beastly governor’s school jazz band graduates who needed a bass player for a gig on thursday. The gig is nothing special for him, but a sudden fount of anxiety for me. I turned him down. I am so out of shape on the bass that the …
These days, it doesn’t take long for someone to expose you as a phony, but because it happens so often, we don’t really care: Dan “Larry The Cable Guy” Whitney Stacy Ferguson Notice how both of them speak perfect English. While we’re on the subject of Fergie, most people my age know that the single …
If you play arpeggios over any II-7 to V7 changes (two-fives), placing a passing tone (a scale or chromatic note) on the 4th beat will always resolve either up or down (and sometimes it can do both) into a chord tone of the next chord. Let’s say we’re playing G-7 to C7: Gm7——-|C7——- |Gm7—— |C7———| G Bb …
Alright that show was pretty darn fun. Granted I wasn’t having as much fun as the half-dozen weirdoes dressed up as Smiths-era Moz, or the 40-something Moms who came dressed like they were in high school again (in a word, shameful), or tattooed waifish boys who knew every lyric to every song and left their …
