Who's to thank for the fantastic bass comping?

**nimbleswitch** · 10-30-2013, 07:19 AM

I've been arranging a lot of the jazz standards, and I can't get over how good the double bass player is. Creative arcs, pedaling, triplets, syncopations all used judiciously--beautiful. I wish I could play jazz bass that well. Who is responsible for programming the jazz double bass, and how did he/she do it? How can I thank her/him personally?

**massimobio** · 10-30-2013, 10:58 AM

I'm glad you like it.

I programmed the bass lines (I'm a bass player) as well as actually programming the app itself

Massimo Biolcati.

**nimbleswitch** · 10-30-2013, 02:18 PM

Massimo, I should have guessed you must have had a lot to do with it. The bass sounds great!

This all puts me in kind of a funny spot, however: I'm only a very amateur entertainer, and I kinda vocalize along with my own upright bass. So I have to cut the bass out of the iRealb playbacks, which seems silly because I don't play bass as well as the iRrealb bass. But I'm not a singer, either, so I don't sing well enough to just stand there and sing along with the full iRealb playbacks. So, between my bass playing and my vocalizing, what I do is pretty fourth rate. On the other hand, if quality is what they wanted they could just play a recording of Sinatra or Bennett or whomever. So we're all just having fun with this thing! . . . But it's a good thing I'm just an amateur.

**Bobsax** · 10-30-2013, 04:17 PM

Hi nimble switch

IRealb turned me from a fourth rate bass player to a second rate player.
Find a weak part in your
playing and make an exercise . Use the educator to slightly increas the tempo.
I have a boatload of bass exercises I should put up. I think I put up a few.
One of the best is to practice scales in circle of fourths but only four at a time.
Ex..C,F,Bb,Eb. Then repeat