• Tri-tone substitutions

• Aguilar VS GK

• Environment and neck stability

• Slash chords

• Duo playing

• String types

• Recording yourself when practicing

• Soloing and chord tone focus

• Connecting with the audience live

• LH muting technique

• Transcription

• Why do I see bassists lick their fingers on stage?

• Practicing multiple instruments

• Walking: how to play over a chord AND pay attention to the next chord

• Spicing up repetitive bass lines

• relaxation and playing

• Modulations

• Major VS Dominant

• Practicing pentatonics

• Walking lines and looking ahead

• Gig prep

• Lead or follow on the bandstand

• Palm muting and hand position

• Chord tones VS diatonic scales when playing changes

• String tension and scale length

• DI’s for ampless gigging or recording

• Fanned fret basses

• Raking

• How to deal with unplayable unison lines in a band

• Legato lines

• Building awareness of chord tones and surrounding notes for use in melodic improvisations

• Getting comfortable with new time signatures

• Simple but effective groove variations

• 8/12 string basses

• Navigating fear and insecurity

• Dialing in feels with the band when things just don’t feel right

• Pivoting

• Turning exercises into musical vocabulary

• Tinnitus

• Reading: Notation, Chord charts or Nashville Numbers?

• Using the thumb… when?

• Keeping inspired and not defeated / G.A.S vs time spent practicing guilt

• Teaching and feeling pressured for absolute answers in a subjective art form

• Relaxing while you play

• Playing bass vs being a bass player

• Self satisfaction (or not) after a gig

• Jam sessions and variations within a tune

• In A Sentimental Mood Playthrough

• Recording Sessions, process

• String Choice

• Hexatonic Scales VS Triad Pairs?

• Jazz and making a living in the current era

• Transcription. Notating lines VS learning by ear

• Odd meter

• Chaabi bass line tricks

• Plucking position and attack

• Mindset

• Relative Minor/Major and how to use it?

• Recording sessions & solos. To improvise vs pre-composition

• Applying diatonic scale and chord exercises in real life

• Chord scales

• Major/Dominant/Minor Chords

• When is it ok to transition to a 5 or 6 string?

• Chords on the bass?

• Why play piano?

• Compressors

• Memorization

• Transcription in real time

• Dealing with getting lost on stage

• Getting gigs

• Inversions

• Fretless bass

• Composition

• Pricing yourself for sessions, etc..

• Capos

• #11

• Advice to a younger self for becoming an improvising musician

• What’s the point of scalar exercises

• Is virtuosity necessary?

• Trouble shooting static sounds on your instrument

• Spicing up pentatonics

• Shapes VS notes

• EQ Tips

• Preventative measures for avoiding injury

• New Headless 5-string Skjold bass

• Approaching tough sections of songs in a live setting

• Getting going - jazz bass listening and approach

• Equipment and process for livestreams, Q&A and videos

• Chord Substitutions

• Practice tunes in all 12 keys or no?

• Create a funk groove

• Walking Bass

• Hearing Protection

• Technique (flying fingers)

• Technique (speed)

• Musician Lifestyle

• Upper register and ergonomics

• scales vs chord tones (improvisation)

• Finger style / slap dynamics

• Practice structure and goals

• Live music iPad setup

Just a very small hang. Mostly me noodling and rambling ;)

• Melody & Harmony (and the bass)

• Fretboard awareness

• Gain vs volume

• Plucking hand dexterity

• Motifs

• Rhythm & Odd Meters

• Pedals

• Apps

• Getting comfortable on a 6-string

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• Playing behind the beat

• Learning the notes of the fretboard

• Fretboard economy

• If I could go back in time, what would I do differently in my development

• Polyrhythms

• Recording process (in the studio)

• Modes… do we need them?

• Turning scales into music

• Relative Major / minor associations & applications

• 1st Q&A!

General feedback and conversation