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The function of a bass player in the jazz combo is to work with the piano player and drummer to provide both a harmonic and rhythmic stability for the tune. Jamersons jazz experience and his eventual evolved music persona. Exact transcriptions, as played by dennis irwin, plus 21 simple bass lead sheets are featured on jazz conception. A compendium of techniques for great jazz bass lines. This requires not only a solid grounding in harmony, rhythm, and melody but also should. Solo techniques for unaccompanied pizzicato jazz double.
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