[QUOTE=spastic]I suppose, but you'd be surpirsed that once you get the technique that I described down it really isn't any extra effort to add those 9ths, 11ths, and 13ths. I almost always play them my first time through unless the song is difficult.[/QUOTE]


Yeah I got a good technique for finding the higher octive notes. If its lets say a b, I'll play the low power chord of b and since the 3rd and 1st string are the same note, I'll move the power chord to where the root note is the former 3rd string. God I hope that makes sense.

[QUOTE=YDload]I got a notice from my college's music department saying that they need people for concert and/or jazz band. I wouldn't try to make room for it, but jazz band is only one day a week and they say they really need electric bass players (that's me!).

I've been playing bass for two and a half years, but I can't sight-read bass clef music. Prior to this, I had played saxophone in elementary to high school concert band, so I know treble clef and very basic theory.

Do I have a shot at this? Keep in mind that I've never seen another bass player on this tiny campus ever, and I can probably transcribe the sheet music so it makes sense to me with enough time (B is the first line rite?!).[/QUOTE]
[url]http://homepage.floodcity.net/users/neo/BCS.pdf[/url]

I don't know how well you'd function in a jazz band. You either need to know how to sight-read, or be able to improvise bass lines based off of chord sheets. And if you only know basic theory, you might be a little stuck on that.

Just Hear
 

[QUOTE=lpdude0690]I recently joined Jazz band playing guitar. I am really starting to get into it, but it is hard for me since I'm not that good at reading guitar music or chords. Besides that, does anybody have any tips? Thanks[/QUOTE]

Just Hear the Bass, believe me, it very important to hear the bass

[QUOTE=joas]Okay.. and your point being, Sax..?[/QUOTE]

it's called sharing an opinion, dickhead.

[QUOTE=Saxamassima3]it's called sharing an opinion, dickhead.[/QUOTE]


Oh, okay. I was just seeing if there was more to it than some guy being a jerkoff.

no, there wasn't