All the Lebanese in Louisiana

An original piece, heavily influenced by my 5-horn arranging style I developed while at Berklee. Message me if you'd like to see the score (the one thing composers like better than writing music is talking about it), the weird groove you hear throughout is in 19/8.

Two bass tracks, one solo, one "bass." Ibanez BTB prestige tuned EADGC

Category:

Music

Tags:

• fusion
• bass
• jazz
• groove
• odd
• meter
• solo
• janek
• damien
• erskine
• jaco
• hadrien
• feraud
• dorian
• b5

[wcr4]

Do you have to be this good to get into Berklee!?!?

By the way, resting your right arm on the bass is bad.

[havic5]

1) No, not at all.

2) Extreme wrist angles are bad, not resting your arm on the bass. Notice my wrist is bent generally at 20 degrees. Resting the arm on the bass is necessary for floating thumb, which is the technique I use.

[wcr4]

1) That is definitely good.

2) I've tried floating thumb and tried to keep my arm off, and I can't make both happen at the same time.

[havic5]

Well, remember, keeping the arm off is just a way to keep your wrist from being bent. If you adopt a technique like floating thumb or whatever that keeps your wrist from being bent, resting your forearm is fine.

[mikemcgibney]

Hey Havic, really liked it. Great tone and loved the phrasing on the solo - which could have maybe even been a bit louder. Quite Tony Grey, I thought. Nice work! Regards - Mike.

[havic5]

Thanks, man. I'm definitely chasing that contemporary sound that cats like Grey, Gwizdala, etc have.

[elvin211]

love music!

[WrennDaVache]

Great technique, man! The voicing against the horns are incredible.

[Zombbg4]

Nice job on the making the odd time parts sound good instead of weird for the sake of being weird. Speaking of weird...your song names? haha, keeps it interesting though.

[MatthewKaras]

Hello Adam. Your tone is very nice. As is your use of Dorian b5.

[NINJADUDE63]

Not bad...but I bet you can't play the Final Countdown!