[video] Jazz combo from high school concert

[Chaos]

I managed to get a video of me playing upright at my school concert. We performed a song called Equinox, I'm pretty sure it was John Coltrane.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ajsFmrZCDMk this is the first bit of the song

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FZhjfqmpfeA&mode=user&search=
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this would be my bass solo, and

My sister started recording a little late so the timing and stuff sounds a little off and the song starts off eh. I know my intonation is off through out the song. I've been playing upright for a little less than a year. And we didn't have too much time to rehearse the song

have fun.

[HaVIC5]

Comments, some of which I've already told you. Overall it was pretty good, actually, for a beginning jazz combo.

1. You walking line is too linear. Using scalar patterns over and over again can get boring. Add a little angular twist by playing through triads and emphasizing chord tones rather than just playing the notes of the scale. Also, you keep it a straight C minor scale most of the time, not taking into account the Ab lydian b7 and the G dominant tonalities in bars 9 and 10. Still, you kept the groove, which is by far the most important thing when you're starting out, so really the first part is a nitpick.

2. Your horns were painfully out of tune. Tell them to tune beforehand.

3. You're solo was a good first go at improvised soloing; that is, you didn't try and muck it up by playing too many notes, and usually kept it to managable, distinct phrases. The problem I see is that you don't have a clear enough idea of what notes you're going to play next, and that causes all of those rhythmic and timing snafus that through you back. Don't worry if you can't blow furthur up the neck - the best solos sometimes are the ones that chill out in 1st position.

4. You'll find that once you start getting in to jazz combos more and more, you'll rehearse less and less. I've played far more combo gigs without rehersal with people I've never jammed with before than those that have been rehearsed. That's the beauty of jazz - its so spontaneous and on the edge of your seat.

[DNAsWhiteShadow]

Damn, jazz seems so complicated an intimidating for a bass player. I never even know where to start, playing wise.