{"id":1066,"date":"2016-02-02T13:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T13:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2016-03-27T22:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-27T22:50:19","slug":"the-journey-of-a-bassist-under-my-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/02\/the-journey-of-a-bassist-under-my-tuition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journey of a bassist under my tuition (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Bass\"Ciao maestro,\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nSet list: Cast Adrift - Steve Hackett (postponed); Starless - King Crimson; To be\r\nover - Yes; Prairie Angel - Steve Hackett; Owner of a lonely heart - Yes; The Fish -\r\nYes\/the late great Chris Squire.\r\n\r\nGuest list: Andy, Chris, Holly and the\r\nanimal chorus. Jo & Shirley had gone out to\r\nthe Indigo fusion restaurant.\r\n \r\nWine list: Enville Ale, Fruit Shoots.\r\n\r\n~ \r\n\r\nThe journal begins.<\/strong> My fingertips, on both hands, are so sore after two hours of\r\nalmost incessant practice, rehearsal and \"performance\". The tunings needed repeated\r\namendments, largely to Chris's six string leads. Even though we were essentially\r\nperforming to camera (Holly was doing her own viola stuff and Facebooking in the\r\nfront room, not in the \"studio\"), I ended up learning, leading and accompanying\r\nChris on \"To be over\".\r\n\r\nChris is NOT a teacher. He likes to play anything at random and rehearse his own\r\nstuff too. Yours truly has to bring him into line, position him to face the\r\npotential audience at home and get him to stop riffing wildly so that I can follow,\r\naccompany or, at least, get the timing right. When dealing with a tetchy yet\r\naccomplished younger sibling (of only 53 & a half), from the position of a far less\r\nproficient performer, the gloves could have been off. However the MUSIC was always\r\nthe maestro!\r\n\r\nDespite this being a performance, Chris and I complimented one another during the\r\n\"To be over\" piece so that I was actually learning it then playing it \"for the\r\nrecord\". His tablet memory is now full but I hope that both producer brother Chris\r\nand engineer Holly (12 & a quarter) can transfer all the takes to their PC then\r\nAirDrop them to me by email. If so, I'll send them over to you after some pretty\r\nnecessary editing.\r\n\r\nActually, I'm quite happy with the first results before any editing. My confidence\r\ngot quite a boost, lastly, from the improvisation section from \"The Fish\r\n(Schindleria praematurus)\" by Yes<\/a> [Fragile 1971]<\/span> on which the lead loop of the\r\nsix-string guitar lays the foundation for the bass to improvise in E. Thanks to my\r\nmentor and teacher's unfaltering patience and motivation, I took confidence from my\r\nlearning so as to then incorporate the minor notes I'd practiced into my ramshackle\r\nattempts e.g. E minor, B flat minor etc, in order to add variation and colour to the\r\npiece (probably outshone by the ceiling light reflecting off my Gianni\r\nInfantino\/Telly Savalas\/Yul Brynner coiffure)!!\r\n\r\nOne final aspect of the event\/experiment was the refreshing reconnection which Chris\r\nand I felt about performing, in future (on or off camera), the wealth of material\r\nthat we still mutually appreciate from our adolescent years...and well beyond! \r\n\r\nAs an experiment, we now know that we need more than thirty minutes rehearsal time!\r\nAs a performance musically, it was pretty heartwarming. We'll arrange another \"gig\"\r\nbefore they all head off to Mexico for the Easter holidays. Caramba! \r\n\r\nHave a top night, maestro!\r\n\r\n<\/strong>For part 1 click here<\/a><\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ciao maestro, Set list: Cast Adrift – Steve Hackett (postponed); Starless – King Crimson; To be over – Yes; Prairie Angel – Steve Hackett; Owner of a lonely heart – Yes; The Fish – Yes\/the late great Chris Squire. Guest list: Andy, Chris, Holly and the animal chorus. Jo & Shirley had gone out to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,6,5,180,52,108,13,179,40,12,28,24,178],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-4-string","tag-achievement","tag-bass","tag-bassist","tag-confidence-gain","tag-discover","tag-experience","tag-journey","tag-learn-to-play","tag-learning-bass","tag-music","tag-performing","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}